Romare Bearden Art Quotes & Sayings

Art is the soul of a people. — 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

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business. — Harvey MacKay

I really enjoy helping a band form their sounds and ideas from initial spark to completed album. Being a producer is different in that, at the end of the day, it is not my art. It's THEIR art, THEIR ideas, THEIR message. — Mark Hoppus

God, these guys were like fucking Terminators. Or Borg. Resistance is futile and all that shit. It was clear she wasn't going to shake the Brothers From Hell. — Larissa Ione

I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you. — Wendy Davis

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' — Leo Burnett

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

At moments we are all artists. — Arnold Bennett

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

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. — Erica Jong

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

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. — Meg Rosoff

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

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake. — Victor Cousin

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. — Oscar Wilde

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. — Ralph Nader

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief. — Franz Kafka