Barnett Newman Painting Quotations

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.