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