Barnett Newman Art Quotations

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.