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That is what he used to do, what he is doing now for the last hears. He is the only painter who paints like that.. ..like the wind, like the ocean, like the light, like the sunlight, like the moonlight, far away from everything, without any image..

— Karel Appel

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If the stroke of the brush is so important, it is because it expresses precisely what is not there.

Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)

The only control that I excercize [in painting] is to not throw too much paint next to the canvas.

Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)

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

Karel Appel – the complete sculptures (1990)

I am afraid of a new barbarism which is killing
man's freedom.

Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)

Something appears midway between order and chaos, these forms, these expressions occupy a middle position.

Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)

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