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 learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places. - Romare Bearden
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
- Romare Bearden
My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it. - Romare Bearden
My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel. - Romare Bearden
You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
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
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.
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? - Romare Bearden
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
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
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.
Art is the soul of a people. - Romare Bearden
Art is the soul of a people.
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
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…
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
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.
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