"It is the poet and the artist who are concerned with the function of original man who are trying to arrive at his creative state. Man's first speech was poetic before it was utilitarian... Man's hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin."
-Barnett Newman
5 comments:
i soo love this quote!!!!! wonderful! and a great thought to ponder!!
I disagree, I think man began to do things for utilitarian and functionalistic purposes.
To me this quote is saying early man was using a stick first for artistic means rather than to use that stick for getting food or a more useful purposes? i would then have to disagree with the quote
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