Artist Quote by Romare Bearden Download Open image “You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.” — Romare Bearden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Don Paint Feel Feels Paint Paint Feel Paint Paint Painting
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they… — Paul Strisik 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
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp 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
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
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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“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
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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image