What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro … - Romare Bearden

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kar. a. bek. i. an (n. ); (from Rabo Karabekian, U. S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

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.

Art, World, Logic, Experience, Negro

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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.

Respect, Art, Mean, Culture

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

Artist, Enchanter, Memories, Present, Time

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

Art, Black, Black Art, Right, Existed, Looked

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.

Mind, Moving, Places, Relives, Roads, Secret Places

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

Swimming, Artist, Whales, Open, Like, Mouth

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kar. a. bek. i. an (n. ); (from Rabo Karabekian, U. S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

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