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Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet, and one of the founders of the CoBrA art movement. His vibrant, expressive style brought new energy to postwar European art. He became internationally recognized for his bold use of color and alternative artistic vision. Here are 58 of his quotes:

In poetic creation there is no question of overcoming matter, as the idle aesthetic proclaimed by so many people would have it – but to free matter. (Karel Appel)
Knowledge isolates phenomena and things to observe with.... nothing is isolatable or can be removed from its environment. Anything which becomes isolated ceases to exist. It is like the violent refusal of someone to play a game in which everyone cheats. View quote
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.. And his painting is like the wind, like a breeze blowing the paint across the canvas, so unreal, so loose and far away from the worldly life. View quote
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To keep it short and simple.... you take the subject, that is for example the wood, and the colour, the paint. You compose the subject, the realistic subject, you make a fantastic shape. For example, here, this is some wood, this is a table with a top and wooden flowers, you know, therefore I paint a [flowery] table, for example.. View quote
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.. because I live in Paris, but just outside Paris at the start of Yonne, I have a barn, a very, very big barn.... right near Auxerre, a barn forty meters long, six meters wide and fifteen meters high, and I do all my work there.. it's like a large street, you know. View quote
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As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. It's like a leaf in the fall; it hangs and when it drops you don't know where it's drifting. View quote
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The experience of the moment is what's important, and somehow the image, the 'thing' is left over. View quote
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quote, c. 1960; from the documentary De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel, by Dutch filmer Jan Vrijman, 1962. View quote
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Karel Appel

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Occupation: Dutch Painter
Born: April 25, 1921
Died: May 3, 2006
Quotes count: 58
Wikipedia: Karel Appel

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