Bram van Velde on Knowledge
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Bram van Velde, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Bram van Velde, entry #62555: "You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going."
Attributed to Bram van Velde, entry #224910: "Everyone cheats. Only artists don’t. They don’t fool people and they aren’t fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them."
8 Quotes by Bram van Velde on Knowledge
"You are in an area where knowledge fails. Where you have to advance in ignorance, not even knowing where you are going."
"Everyone cheats. Only artists don’t. They don’t fool people and they aren’t fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them."
"I am powerless, helpless. Each time it’s a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown."
"Something is trying to come into the world. But I don’t know what it is. I never start by knowing. It's impossible to know. Truth is not knowledge."
"At is taking risks.. ..a sincere attempt to achieve the impossible, the unknown."
"Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself."
"I don’t know if I've got close enough to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted."
"The more you know, the less you are."