Art Quote by Romare Bearden Download Open image “Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.” — Romare Bearden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Black Black art Inspirational Love Right place
Is there such a thing as black art? Or are there just artists who are black? — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Black art is not some kind of a magic wand: there still has to be a humble heart attached that's listening to it. And… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
"Black culture" is ready for whatever. I sense some momentum and excitement around black artists (especially in comedy, which is where most of my own art resides), really pushing the bounds of what has generally been expected as black. I don't think it's a revolution so much as an exposure of what has always been there, and now that the… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings.… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that… — Cheo Hodari Coker 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 Image
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 Image
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
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 Image
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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