Barnett Newman
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I had the desire to make that central thing black and the rest of the painting was black. Well, I was in the state of terror because what would happen-I never had black on black.... The terror of it was intense. As a matter of fact, it took me, you might say, weeks to arrive at the point where I finally did it. I tried to do everything else except the black. I tried to make it, you know, I would leave it white. It looked all right; I thought maybe, you know, make it blue, make it.... But I couldn't, I had to make it black. That as I recall was a moment of high feeling for me which was almost obsessive as I could not leave it; I could not do it. I could not do it. I could not do it. I could do it. I felt, well, you know, black. I'll just ruin the canvas; it's good and expensive. And this is a long time ago; it was in 1949. And it was to a certain extent involved in the beginning of my new life, so to speak. Well, I finally ma...
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