Karel Appel famous quotes
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If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
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Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
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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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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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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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As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
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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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My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
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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.
-- Karel Appel
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