Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. — Romare Bearden Copy Share
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my… — Romare Bearden Copy Share
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue — Romare Bearden Copy Share
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination. — Romare Bearden Copy Share
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child. — Romare Bearden Copy Share
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of… — Romare Bearden Copy Share
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The… — Romare Bearden Copy Share
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements. — Romare Bearden Copy Share
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he… — Romare Bearden Copy Share
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint. — Romare Bearden Copy Share
