20 Quotes by Romare Bearden

Art is the soul of a people.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

You don’t paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

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.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn’t been looked for in the right places.

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.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you’re always at issue.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.