3 Quotes & Sayings By Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman was an American painter considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He is best known for his monumental compositions combining intense color with geometric, sometimes phallic forms.

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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. Barnett Newman
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Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void. Barnett Newman