"The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue"

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Source : Romare Bearden (1989). “Romare Bearden, 1911-1988: A Memorial Exhibition”, Aca Galleries

Romare Bearden

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“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
“The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.”
“Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.”
“I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.”

Source : "Twoscore and Ten". "A Home Idyl And Other Poems". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1881.
“History takes time. History makes memory.”
“Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.”
“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”
“Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.”

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