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“Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.”
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“Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.”
Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
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“I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.”
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“Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city, this night, and spewed its venom over the land. How strange of God to speak from a burning bush, and of Man to make a symbol of Heaven into a symbol of Hell.”
Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK
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“In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.”
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“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.”
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“Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.”
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Source : Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”
