A painter is somebody who sees. I paint the moment when I set out. When I set out to see. And it’s the same thing for the viewer. When he approaches the canvas, he is advancing towards an encounter. The encounter with vision.

— Bram van Velde Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1965)

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