“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

3 April 1972; p. 90
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

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