Karel Appel Quotes

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

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

I don't paint, I hit.

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.