Romare Bearden Quotes

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• 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…
• 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 where…
• Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
• The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
• The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
• The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
• You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
• Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we…
• I want to see how life can triumph.
• Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
• Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has…
• Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
• Art is the soul of a people.
• Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
• When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.
• What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own…
• My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

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