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Abraham Gerardus van Velde, dit Bram van Velde, né le 19 octobre 1895 à Zoeterwoude, près de Leyde, mort le 28 décembre 1981 à Grimaud, est un peintre et lithographe néerlandais. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. octobre 1895 – 28. décembre 1981
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Bram van Velde: Citations en anglais

“Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won’t reach that by considerations of my mind; on the contrary they will lead to a certain despair of the inner person. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels.”

Letter to H.P. Bremmer, 17-11-1930, City Archive The Hague, as quoted in Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1930's

“I am well aware that a painting must inevitably be a bizarre, incomprehensible thing.”

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

“Painting is an eye, a blinded eye that continues to see, and sees what blinds it.... this tiny little thing, which is nothing, which dominates life.”

short quotes, 31 October 1966; p. 58
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.”

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

“Each time it’s an attempt to get there. To get to see. To get where you can see.”

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

“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.”

1980's
Source: Je peins l'Impossibilité de peindre, by M. Nuridsany, newspaper Le Figaro, 24-10-1989, p. 35, as quoted in Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 40 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)

“I don’t set out to speak a comprehensible language. But my language is authentic.”

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

“You are in constant danger of being destroyed.”

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

“The most difficult thing is when you can’t do anything. When you just have to wait.”

short quotes, 9 November 1965; p. 54
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“I am powerless, helpless. Each time it’s a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown.”

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

“I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me... Painting is silence.”

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

“A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.”

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

“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.”

2 April 1967; p. 62
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.”

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

“Painting doesn't interest me... What I paint is beyond painting.”

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

“Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.”

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

“Life is so difficult to catch.”

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

“The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.”

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

“The most difficult thing is not to want anything.”

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

“Creating a painting is a matter of ensuring that all its parts achieve unity. Though it's a precarious, fragile unity.”

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

“Van Gogh... In this world of petty calculations, he was too intense. He frightened people. They cast him out.”

two quotes, 16 July 1970; p. 77
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

“The less you think, the better it is.”

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

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