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Romare Bearden Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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



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Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.



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



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





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