Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
Romare BeardenWhat 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 BeardenSometimes 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.
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 Bearden