Karel Appel in quotes, on his expressive painting art & life - free resource, European art history

**Karel Appel in his quotes - the Dutch-born artist on his painting art and life in The Netherlands, France + later the US ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in European art history

Karel Appel’s artist-quotes reveal an intensive and intimate relation with the process of the creation of art - as painter and as sculptor. During his long artistic life Appel continued to create spontaneous, colorful, expressive art - in paintings, sculptures, lithography and in many graphic prints.

Appel was a Dutch-born an dlater very famous artist who lived inAmsterdam, Paris and afterwards in the U.S. He initiated with other young artists in the Netherlands the famous modern artist group / art movement COBRA.
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Some selected quotes of famous Dutch-born artist Karel Appel - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I paint like a barbarian in this barbarous time.’ - quote of Karel Appel, 1962; from the documentary ‘De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel’, by Dutch filmer Jan Vrijman

• ’Of course, I painted before Cobra (in 1950’s), as afterwards. Each one of us (CoBrA-artists) had his own personality. Cobra is only a very short period of my life. It was like a crossroads. We crossed paths and each continued on his way… .We (artists) are not born to form groups. A group that lasted for too long would destroy the creative activity of its members. - quote of Appel in an interview with Michel Ragon, 1963

• ’I have painted like an ape. The ape phase is in all my work. My first lick of paint is the ape phase, from that I grow towards a more intellectual phase, involving the lines, the rhythm. From that phase I grow towards mankind, for that is where the power of my imagination lies. It no longer has anything to do with reality, even though the world is present in it - for we recognize people, animals, plants, you name it.’ - quote of Karel Appel: from the conversation with Rudy Fuchs in 1990!
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous Dutch-born artist Karel Appel:

  • extended biographical notes of Karel Appel, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Appel
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Appel, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karel_Appel
  • images of the expressive painting art of Karel Appel, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/karel-appel
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]