"Painting, like passion, is a living voice."

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Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.179, Univ of California Press

Barnett Newman

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“I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.”
“The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.”
“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
“When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."”
“Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.”
“Ainâ€™t nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt....”
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

Source : "Dreyfus : His Life and Letters‎" edited by Pierre Dreyfus, (p. 175), 1937.

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