Romare Bearden Quotes
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Art is the soul of a people.
— Romare Bearden
In this life, only one thing is needful ; God's grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
— Romare Bearden
You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
— Romare Bearden
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.
— Paul Feyerabend
I want to see how life can triumph.
— 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
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 value we place on what we've been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.
— Todd Stocker
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
A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Had Richard really proposed? Had I really said yes? Surely not. I had said yes. Shit.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
— 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
Will there be people who will have the conscience to contribute to the country by changing themselves first? That is the need of the moment.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
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
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
Think about peace; act with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.
— Jim Gaffigan
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
— August Wilson
You will most certainly scream. I promise you that.
— Karen Marie Moning