Bram van Velde Short Quotes

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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest

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There's always doubt. There's nothing you can get hold of.

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I am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.

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However terrible it is, the thing never involves any sadness

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Van Gogh... Fascinating. The fragility of that strong spirit.

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

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

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

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

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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.

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

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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.

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

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An artist's life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.

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

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At is taking risks.... a sincere attempt to achieve the impossible, the unknown.

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Each time it's an attempt to get there. To get to see. To get where you can see.

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I don't set out to speak a comprehensible language. But my language is authentic.

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

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I have to try to see where seeing is no longer possible, where visibility is gone.

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

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

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

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I'm trying to see, when everything in this world conspires to prevent us from seeing.

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

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

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

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Of course painting is ridiculous. But it's the only way I've got to get closer to life.

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

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To be nothing. Just nothing. It's a frightening experience. You have to let go of everything.

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