All the absurdity and hope are the stimulants to create. You make art to find a little hole to go on. You go through the whole to find the world again, and the absurdity is that still, somehow it is the same.... Hopelessness and hope are the same. It's a very thin line you don't see any more. I don't believe in that line between hopelessness and hope today.

P. 71 'The eye of the beholder', Carlo McCormick in - from 'Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990)