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Bram van Velde quotes - page 3
Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.
Bram van Velde
Life is so difficult to catch.
Bram van Velde
The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
Bram van Velde
The most difficult thing is not to want anything.
Bram van Velde
Van Gogh... In this world of petty calculations, he was too intense. He frightened people. They cast him out.
Bram van Velde
The less you think, the better it is.
Bram van Velde
I met Beckett at my brother's [ w:Geert van Velde, also an abstract painter] place. That was a Big meeting [circa 1938, in Paris], in capital letters. It was before war started, life was still normal. That time I was very lonely. We saw each other often. Before the war he had published already something, but his fame came in 1953. We never spoke about his work. He was a taciturn man. Sometimes a word escaped from his mouth. Sure, a word you would never forget. It would stick in your head... This friendship with Beckett is the most important experience in my life. He was fully alive for my way of working. What he could express in words, I did with my paintings.
Bram van Velde
What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance.
Bram van Velde
However terrible it is, the thing never involves any sadness.
Bram van Velde
An artist's life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
Bram van Velde
I am in the void. Nothing to hang on to.
Bram van Velde
The real horror is mass production. Painting when there is no compulsion to do so... ...Pictures like that are all unpunished crimes.
Bram van Velde
When you are working, you are so far away and so absorbed, it's inevitable that you fall into a vacuum when you stop.... every time when I finish a painting, I always have to wait to get my strength back before I can begin another.
Bram van Velde
There's always doubt. There's nothing you can get hold of.
Bram van Velde
To be nothing. Just nothing. It's a frightening experience. You have to let go of everything.
Bram van Velde
Everyone cheats. Only artists don't. They don't fool people and they aren't fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them.
Bram van Velde
When you get to the bottom, you discover that there is no room for pride. That's what I paint.
Bram van Velde
It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
Bram van Velde
The artist is the bearer of life.
Bram van Velde
I'm now in a big working period, which takes me up so much that hardly anything of me remains. I have never been strong in theories and this becomes worse and worse. My work should give me satisfaction, and that is about life and death... Several paintings full of life and beauty arose again and give me the courage and joy to proceed on the road. There are also several paintings in which I am involved for less than half, discharges in a short time, which have existence for a while, but will not reach shaping.
Bram van Velde
The important thing is to be nothing.
Bram van Velde
Painting, an oeuvre, is not such a big deal, it is so unimportant. But that's precisely what makes it interesting.
Bram van Velde
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