“As a Negro, for instance, I do not need to go looking for ‘happenings’, the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things that neither Dali, Beckett, Ionesco, nor any of the others, could have thought possible.”
(From Romare Bearden: Selections from his Published Writings and Interviews, binder accompanying the exhibition “Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940-1987,” October 2, 1992 – January 3, 1993.) |
Romare Bearden: Quotations (from the same exhibition)
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