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… — Karel Appel Copy Share
You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution. — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
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… — Karel Appel Copy Share
The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image. — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee,… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
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… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
