Romare Bearden

North Carolina · born or raised1911–1988

African American artist (1911–1988)

Born in Charlotte

Quotations with a citation

It is not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda . . . [but] the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Breughel. My intention is to reveal through pictorial complexities the life I know.

To come to the studio and start to paint just cubes and circles is in a sense to deny everything one has seen all day.