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“Painting, an oeuvre, is not such a big deal, it is so unimportant. But that’s precisely what makes it interesting.”

Bram van Velde

1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

Painting

“There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.”

Bram van Velde

1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

Time , Painting

“I paint the impossibility of painting.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Painting

“Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.”

Bram van Velde

1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

Painting

“I can’t say anything. There are no words.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“Yes, perhaps there is some enjoyment in it [his paintings] too, somewhere.”

Bram van Velde

short quotes, 13 April 1968; p. 70
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Painting

“Artists don’t live in the everyday world. That’s why people think they’re an odd bunch.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

People , World , Thinking

“A painter is somebody who sees. I paint the moment when I set out. When I set out to see. And it’s the same thing for the viewer. When he approaches the canvas, he is advancing towards an encounter. The encounter with vision.”

Bram van Velde

short quotes, 14 September 1967; p. 67
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Painting

“Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.”

Bram van Velde

two short quotes, 24 August 1970; p. 78
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

“The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Secret

“Each painting contains so much suffering.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Suffering , Painting

“Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Stupidity , Painting

“Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what’s in life… Art wants to give back everything what’s in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.”

Bram van Velde

Letter to H. E. Kramer, 25-10-1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 44 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1920's

Life , Art , Personality

“When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Suffering , Painting

“Something is trying to come into the world. But I don’t know what it is. I never start by knowing. It's impossible to know. Truth is not knowledge.”

Bram van Velde

1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

Truth , World , Knowledge

“Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.”

Bram van Velde

1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

Truth , Painting

“Waiting for the truth.”

Bram van Velde

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Truth , Waiting