Barnett Newman

“Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.”

“Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.”

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