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When I am painting, driven by lively tensions, I want to express what's going on in me. When that tension has ceased, when the life in me became visible, then something happened which had to happen. Over and over again you experience a work which is created in this way. What happened? It is hard to say, because it was not my mind that led but the inner desire that revealed its inner life.
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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.
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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.
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Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.
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Oh Baudelaire... He used to be enormously important to me. It's thanks to him that I was able to get through the war [in Paris, during 1940 – 1945 Van Velde had a long and painful break, with only a few paintings he finished]. A true loyal mind without hypocrisy. The most universal spirit. The greatest Frenchman. I have always been much less interested in painters [than Baudelaire - a great surprise to hear for Charles Juliet the interviewer].
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A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.
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Yes, perhaps there is some enjoyment in it [his paintings] too, somewhere.
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
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I am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.
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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.
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Born:
October 19, 1895
Died:
December 28, 1981
(aged 86)
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