"I met Beckett at my brother’s place. That was a Big meeting [circa 1938, in Paris], in capital letters. It was before war started, life was still normal. That time I was very lonely. We saw each other often. Before the war he had published already something, but his fame came in 1953. We never spoke about his work. He was a taciturn man. Sometimes a word escaped from his mouth. Sure, a word you would never forget. It would stick in your head … This friendship with Beckett is the most important experience in my life. He was fully alive for my way of working. What he could express in words, I did with my paintings."
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Bram van Velde, as quoted in "Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht," in NRC Handelsblad (1979) by Paul Groot, as translated by Charlotte Burgmans
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Samuel Beckett
1906 – 1989
irischer Schriftsteller
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