Carolina Quotes
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.
Romare Bearden Carolinian
Source
Artist's statement, as published in Romare Bearden: The Human Condition (New York: ACA Galleries, 1991), p. 2; Smithsonian American Art Museum artist biography
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“It is not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in term…” Romare Bearden. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-4EB1FA3792. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/4eb1fa3792