Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise… - Karel Appel
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise…
- Karel Appel
I don't paint, I hit. - Karel Appel
I don't paint, I hit.
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces … - Karel Appel
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces …
My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image. - Karel Appel
My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age - Karel Appel
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression. - Karel Appel
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. - Karel Appel
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution. - Karel Appel
You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike. - Karel Appel
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
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