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The true artist has no style. Style is an exterior decorative element. The true artist as servant of his matter, transcends it with an absolute freedom.

— Karel Appel Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)

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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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