Function Artist Quotes by Romare Bearden

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

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

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

— Romare Bearden

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

— Romare Bearden

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

Art is the soul of a people.

— Romare Bearden

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

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

— Romare Bearden

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

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

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden

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

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

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

— Romare Bearden

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

— Romare Bearden