Bram van Velde quotes - page 2

In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength. (Bram van Velde)
Each time it's an attempt to get there. To get to see. To get where you can see. View quote
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About Van Gogh.. a man who is on fire, a torch. His sincerity is absolute. His best painting is the grain field where he kills himself. There we find ourselves at the border of the art of painting. We cannot go further. View quote
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I don't set out to speak a comprehensible language. But my language is authentic. View quote
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You are in constant danger of being destroyed. View quote
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Van Gogh.. Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit. View quote
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I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find. View quote
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Everything has to end before it can begin. View quote
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Picasso.... the master.... being a master: 'I don't search, I find' [a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists].. the master, the mastery.... Producing, producing... He [Picasso! ] only knows how to work, can't do anything else. What lost souls!... The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait. View quote
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The more you know, the less you are. View quote
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing. (Bram van Velde)
I feel myself tied to life. To the immensity and complexity of life. Each painting is an impulse towards life. View quote
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer. View quote
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Life is wrecked by living. View quote
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I'm trying to see, when everything in this world conspires to prevent us from seeing. View quote
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Perhaps he [ Mondrian ] was too faithful to a single discovery. And perhaps that kind of painting was right for the period. But now peace and harmony are no longer possible. There is only anguish. View quote
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The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic. View quote
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The most difficult thing is when you can't do anything. When you just have to wait. View quote
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I am powerless, helpless. Each time it's a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown. View quote
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I don't like talking. I don't like people talking to me... Painting is silence. View quote
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A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself. (Bram van Velde)
Part of your work feels as clear, it gives you a sense of liberation or beauty and you recognize it as necessary pavements. You are thus in a sense ready. In the other part of your work this is not the case. Therein is the hidden development, which is the true essence of art... the higher purpose, the pursuit forward that art automatically calls. The unclear part of your work needs to progress (stopping is no option, is no life, no art) and it is clear when by working with head and heart, the real step forward has been achieved. View quote
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Painting is an aid to vision. It turns life, the complexity of life, into something visible. It reveals things that we don't know how to see. View quote
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Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void. View quote
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Artists who are the defenders of true life become phonies. That's the perfidious thing about this world. Society turns anyone with a bit of life inside them into a medical case. View quote
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