Top 39 Bearden Quotes
#1. My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
August Wilson
#2. From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
August Wilson
#3. 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 others.
Romare Bearden
#4. Writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
Andrea A. Lunsford
#5. It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
Romare Bearden
#6. The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
Romare Bearden
#7. 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.
Romare Bearden
#8. According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know not how, and mankind are wholly unacquainted with their origin.
Jean-Andre De Luc
#9. 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
#10. I am always being stopped for style advice, and I love it! The way we dress says so much about ourselves, and I love when I can help others take control of that.
Nina Garcia
#11. My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
Romare Bearden
#12. 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
#13. Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
Romare Bearden
#14. Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
Romare Bearden
#15. I love you Layla. Do you hear me? I've loved you since the first moment I heard your voice and I will continue to love you. No matter what. I love you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#16. Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
Romare Bearden
#17. Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.
Jim Benton
#18. The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.
Romare Bearden
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. We forgot that many, if not most accomplishments will not leave the world a better place, which begs the question of whether they are really accomplishments at all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
Romare Bearden
#24. 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
#25. I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
Manuel Puig
#26. 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
#27. 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
#29. The only right response to Christ's lordship is wholehearted submission, loving obedience, and passionate worship.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#30. Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
Alysia Reiner
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
Romare Bearden
#36. Well, there's two kinds of peeing ... There's regular peeing, because you have to pee. And then there's auxiliary competitive peeing. For acquiring empire. I'm all about the real estate.
Merrill Markoe
#37. Walk toward individuals who exude excellence and goodness, and surround yourself with those who make you a better person. Bond with individuals who are good for your soul.
Kim Bearden
#38. You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
Romare Bearden
#39. The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
Romare Bearden
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