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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/i-m-not-a-pessimist-maybe-i-don-t-have-a-primitive-feeling-of/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

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## More by Karel Appel

> [I don't paint, I hit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/i-don-t-paint-i-hit/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/you-have-to-learn-it-all-then-forget-it-and-start-again-like-a-child/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/when-i-was-young-i-once-found-a-book-in-a-dutch-translation-the/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/if-i-paint-like-a-barbarian-it-s-because-we-live-in-a-barbarous-age/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/through-play-we-renew-contact-with-childhood-my-art-is-childlike/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/the-duty-of-the-artist-is-not-to-be-calculating-in-any-sense-so-that/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/my-brush-strokes-start-in-nothing-and-they-end-in-nothing-and-in/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/as-an-artist-you-have-to-fight-and-survive-the-wilderness-to-keep/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/every-day-i-have-to-be-awake-to-escape-the-whole-world-is-sleepy-it/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/my-paint-is-like-a-rocket-which-describes-its-own-space-i-try-to-make/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-appel/i-m-not-a-pessimist-maybe-i-don-t-have-a-primitive-feeling-of/)

[Karel Appel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-appel/)

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