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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.

— Bram van Velde Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970)

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

Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1965)

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.

Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1965)

Because it's an adventure out of all proportion. You have to devote all your strength to it and it's never enough.

Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970)

The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.

Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970)

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.

Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1965)

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