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

- Romare Bearden

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

- Romare Bearden

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

- Romare Bearden

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

- Romare Bearden

Art is the soul of a people.

- 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 where you were.

- Romare Bearden

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

- Romare Bearden

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 logic.

- Romare Bearden

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 go to touch…

- Romare Bearden