"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."

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Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press

Barnett Newman

#Impact Quotes #Giving Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Always make new mistakes.”
“Everyone's journey is completely different.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 16, 2011.
“When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.”
“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”
“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”
“Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.”

Source : The New Republic, Vol. 114, 1946.
“You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.”

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