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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.”

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

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

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

“I paint the impossibility of painting.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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”

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

“Each painting contains so much suffering.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Waiting for the truth.”

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