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“If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age”
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Karel Appel
#Age Quotes
#Barbarians Quotes
#Paint Quotes
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“Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.”
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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
#Art Quotes
#Play Quotes
#Childhood Quotes
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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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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 85 'Quotes', 1990.
#Expression Quotes
#Color Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
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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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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, 'The eye of the beholder', 1990.
#Real Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
#World Quotes
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“I don't paint, I hit.”
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Karel Appel
Source : Karel Appel, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum (2005). “Karel Appel: retrospective 1945-2005”, Artimo Foundation
#Paint Quotes
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“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 of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.”
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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.
#Art Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Style Quotes
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“As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.”
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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
#Creativity Quotes
#Fighting Quotes
#Artist Quotes
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“You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.”
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Karel Appel
#Children Quotes
#Evolution Quotes
#Forget Quotes
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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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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
#Ends Quotes
#Brushes Quotes
#Brush Strokes Quotes
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“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”
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Karel Appel
Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
#Ocean Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Space Quotes
