Bram van Velde in his artist quotes on abstract painting & life - free resource, French art history

Bram van Velde in his quotes - the Dutch-born artist writes and talks about his abstract painting art and his life in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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Bram Van Velde’s artist quotes focus strongly on ‘Truth’ in modern painting art, and the necessary ‘uncertainty’, which an artist has to accept as condition to create real art. That’s why he criticizes Picasso as an ‘artist who knows too much’. Van Velde himself waits and waits…

Bram van Velde was a Dutch-born painter, living and working mainly in France. He became famous for his independent, abstract and colored art-style. A huge inspiration for him were Matisse’s early still-life paintings in the 1930’s. Later he painted completely abstract. Van Velde’s painting style resides between Abstract expressionism, École de Paris and French Surrealism. His art is expressive and intuitively created!
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Some selected quotes of artist Bram van Velde - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won’t reach that by considerations of my mind. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels…’ - Bram van Velde’s quote, in a letter of van Velde, 1930; City Archive The Hague

• ’The sensitive man or the artist can only be a sick man in our civilized life, so full of lies… …painting is man in the face of his downfall.’. - Van Velde’s quote; as cited in ‘Abstract Painting’, Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., 1964, p. 134

• ’Painting is an aid to vision. It turns life, the complexity of life, into something visible. It reveals things that we don’t know how to see’ - quote by Bram van Velde, 1967, from: ‘Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde’, ed. Charles Juliet, Archive edition, 2009, p. 62
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  selection of free art-resources on the artist Bram van Velde:

  • biographical notes on Bram Van Velde, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_van_Velde
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Van Velde, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bram_van_Velde
  • images of the painting art of Bram Van Velde, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Bram van Velde
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]