..the terror to expect. Hiroshima showed it to us. The terror has indeed become as real as life. - Barnett Newman

We feel that our pictures demonstrate our aesthetic beliefs, some of which we, therefore, list:

Sylvester: When was it that you first did a painting with one or two simple lines, horizontal or vertical, across the surface?
Newman: I would say that it began in '46— '47. In those years, whenever I did a painting with one or two elements in it, it did always have a sense of an atmospheric background, I suppose — with the exception of a painting which I called Euclidian Abyss, where the background is black and has some of the white coming through, but there's no true atmosphere.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.