Barnett Newman

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

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'.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

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