Karel Appel Short Quotes

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Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

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A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again.

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Theories are things.... Absence and inexistence of theories are things.

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The struggle begins, to harmonize canvas, eye, hand, forms. New appirations stalk the earth.

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My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

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The experience of the moment is what's important, and somehow the image, the 'thing' is left over.

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If the stroke of the brush is so important, it is because it expresses precisely what is not there.

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[artists are people..] who employ matter between birth and death. Matter is something to use, not possess.

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Something appears midway between order and chaos, these forms, these expressions occupy a middle position.

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A sky of clouds completely 'out of the blue'.... I'm looking, reflecting, and when it suddenly happens: hey, the clouds, and what clouds!

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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.

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The true artist has no style. Style is an exterior decorative element. The true artist as servant of his matter, transcends it with an absolute freedom.

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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.

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To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.

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