"I don't paint, I hit."

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Source : Karel Appel, Rudolf Herman Fuchs, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum (2005). “Karel Appel: retrospective 1945-2005”, Artimo Foundation

Karel Appel

“Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.”
“Time makes me stronger Well,there's nothing more to say.”

Source : Song: One Day In Your Life, 2001
“Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age”
“Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.”
“Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?”
“The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.”
“Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.”
“In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.”

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