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
Bram van Velde: 97 citations0 J'aime
Bram van Velde: Citations en anglais
“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)
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
short quotes, 31 October 1966; p. 58
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
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)
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)
short quotes, 31 December 1966; pp. 60-61
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)
2 November 1970; p. 79
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
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)
than Baudelaire - a great surprise to hear for Charles Juliet the interviewer
14 September 1967; p. 66
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Letter to B. Kramers, 1926, as quoted in: Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger, Deurne 1994, p. 18 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
1920's
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)
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
short quotes, 2 November 1970; p. 81
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“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)
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
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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