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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.
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The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end, without weakening. You can do nothing else. But you must not believe that because you accept being nothing, you are anyone special.
Bram van Velde
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I feel myself tied to life. To the immensity and complexity of life. Each painting is an impulse towards life.
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I have to try to see where seeing is no longer possible, where visibility is gone.
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About Van Gogh.. a man who is on fire, a torch. His sincerity is absolute. His best painting is the grain field where he kills himself. There we find ourselves at the border of the art of painting. We cannot go further.
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A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.
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I'm trying to see, when everything in this world conspires to prevent us from seeing.
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The greatest moment is when you realize that the painting you've just finished is nothing. When you manage to detach yourself from it.
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Life is wrecked by living.
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Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.
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Painting, an oeuvre, is not such a big deal, it is so unimportant. But that’s precisely what makes it interesting.
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I am well aware that a painting must inevitably be a bizarre, incomprehensible thing.
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Yes, perhaps there is some enjoyment in it his paintings too, somewhere.
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Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.
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I don’t set out to speak a comprehensible language. But my language is authentic.
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Creating a painting is a matter of ensuring that all its parts achieve unity. Though it's a precarious, fragile unity.
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Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.
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Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.
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It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
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What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance.
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I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find.
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Mondrian? His mind was too subtle. He worked in the light. I work in the darkness.. .Mondrian is the Buddha of painting. I saw him once. You wondered how a man could radiate such charisma.
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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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I'm now in a big working period, which takes me up so much that hardly anything of me remains. I have never been strong in theories and this becomes worse and worse. My work should give me satisfaction, and that is about life and death.. .Several paintings full of life and beauty arose again and give me the courage and joy to proceed on the road. There are also several paintings in which I am involved for less than half, discharges in a short time, which have existence for a while, but will not reach shaping.
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