Bearden Quotes
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Bearden Quotes & Sayings
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Art is the soul of a people.
— Romare Bearden
Football is the poetry of a motion.
— Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake
Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
— Romare Bearden
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
— Gustav Heinemann
You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
— Romare Bearden
I want to see how life can triumph.
— Romare Bearden
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
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
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
— Romare Bearden
You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
— 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
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
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
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
— Romare Bearden
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.
— Romare Bearden
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
— Albert Camus
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
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
— August Wilson
It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
— Nigel Hamilton
My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
— Romare Bearden
