Bram van Velde - Live Quotes

8 Sourced Quotes

View all Bram van Velde Quotes
In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.

Bram van Velde
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
Artists don't live in the everyday world. That's why people think they're an odd bunch.

Bram van Velde
Most people's lives are governed by willpower. An artist is someone who has no will.

Bram van Velde
The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.

Bram van Velde
I need to go towards the illogical. This world we live in destroys us. It is always governed by the same laws. You have to create images that don't belong to it. That are totally different from those it presents us.

Bram van Velde
Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.

Bram van Velde
If these gouaches [Bram van Velde recently made] live at all, it is because they are true, they derive from life. They are born of the unknown – and not of habit or know-how, or intention, or of some recipe.... there comes a time when serious work is no longer an effort. When demanding work of that kind no longer tires you.

Bram van Velde