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

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Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.

Karel Appel

#Ends Quotes #Brushes Quotes #Brush Strokes Quotes

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...”
“We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.”
“What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.”
“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Source : "Unilever's Paul Polman: challenging the corporate status quo" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.
“As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.”
“Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.”
“Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]”
“I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.”

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