Top 32 Romare Quotes
#1. From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
August Wilson
#2. Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
Romare Bearden
#3. 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
#4. The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?
Romare Bearden
#5. 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
#6. As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
#7. 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
#8. My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
Romare Bearden
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
Romare Bearden
#12. If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet.
John Connolly
#13. Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
Romare Bearden
#14. Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.
Romare Bearden
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
Romare Bearden
#19. You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
Romare Bearden
#20. Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
Romare Bearden
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
Irving Stone
#24. We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'
but, 'Is it true?'
Charles Spurgeon
#26. The heart, said to be man's noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most ignoble; the symbolism is not inappropriate, because the love which comes from the heart soon extends to the organ which it resembles.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#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
#28. 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
#29. Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
Billie Jean King
#30. 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
#32. You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
Romare Bearden
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