↑ Sylvester, David (1998). The Grove Book of Art Writing. New York, NY: Grove Press. tr. 537. ISBN0802137202. Barnet Newman:"The painting should give man a sense of place: that he knows he's there, so he's aware of himself. In that sense he relates to me when I made the painting because in that sense I was there... [Hopefully] you [have] a sense of your own scale [standing in front of the painting]... To me that sense of place has not only a sense of mystery but also has a sense of metaphysical fact. I have come to distrust the episodic, and 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 and the same time of his connection to others, who are also separate."
