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Romare Bearden - From the Art category:
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Artists category:
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)
Romare Bearden - From the Artists category:
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)
Romare Bearden - From the Chaos category:
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Colour category:
You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Desire category:
What you don't need is just as important as what you do need. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Desire category:
Artists have this desire for a vision of the world... There's some painting someplace that's not in a museum and it's your idea as a painter to put that one thing that is missing there. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Difficulty category:
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue... (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Discipline category:
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Education category:
Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Ego category:
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)
Romare Bearden - From the Immortality category:
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Improvisation category:
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 rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Journey category:
There are roads out of the secret place within us which we must all move as we go to touch others. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Life category:
I want to see how life can triumph. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Life category:
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Originality category:
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision... by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences... molds something distinctly personal. (Romare Bearden)
Romare Bearden - From the Painting category:
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint. (Romare Bearden)
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