Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 140
Famous Barnett Newman Quotes
1940 - 1950
Source: the catalogue of the 'Ideographic Picture' show, New York, 1947
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 124
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 127
Barnett Newman Quotes about painting
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 127
Source: 1960 - 1970, Interview with David Sylvester 2. Spring 1965, p. 259
Source: 1960 - 1970, Interview with David Sylvester 2. Spring 1965, p. 255
“Aesthetics is for painting as Ornithology is for the birds.”
Quote of Newman (1952), as cited in: C. Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen (2012). The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory. p. 123
1950 - 1960
interview, April 1965, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in 'The Listener', Aug. 1972; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, p. 37
1960 - 1970, Interview with David Sylvester 1. Spring 1965
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 139
Barnett Newman Quotes about the world
1940 - 1950
Source: Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1990, p. 112
Quote of 1942; in Barnett Newman', by Thomas B. Hess, museum of Modern art, New York 1971; as cited in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 124-125
1940 - 1950
“Surrealism, is interested in a dream world that will penetrate the human psyche.”
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 140
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 126
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 125
Barnett Newman Quotes
“I think every man is an artist.”
Quote of Barnett Newman in: American Artists, a 1966 TV Show on New York's educational television network; as cited by Caroline A. Jones (1998) in Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist. p. 84
1960 - 1970
Context: Does a man want to be an artist? Is it like he wants to be a priest, or a lawyer? Is the artist that kind of profession? Or, as I once actually wrote, I think every man is an artist. An artist is a matter of my birthright... what I'd like to be is a man in the world. And I paint in order to do a painting, not to... make myself into a so-called artist... I'm impelled to do something, to say something.
“All artists whether primitive or sophisticated, have been involved in the handling of chaos.”
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 139
“Let us, rather, like the Greek writers, tear the tragedy to shreds.”
in Newman's essay of 1945, as quoted in: Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1990, p. 20
1940 - 1950
“.. the terror to expect. Hiroshima showed it to us. The terror has indeed become as real as life.”
Quote from Newman's essay of 1945, as cited in: Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1990, p. 20
1940 - 1950
in Jackson Pollock: An Artists Symposium, ARTnews Vol. 66 no. 2 April 1967; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, pp. 147-148
1960 - 1970
“Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.”
Barnett Newman, in The New American Painting, exhibition catalogue May 28 - Sept 8. 1959; republished in: Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill. (1992). Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews. p. 160
1950 - 1960
Source: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 139
Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in thier common 'Manifesto', New York Times, 13 June 13, 1943; republished in: Stella Paul (1999), Twentieth-Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 159
1940 - 1950