Karel Appel: Paint

Karel Appel was Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. Explore interesting quotes on paint.

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“The brushstroke, in painting, is purely and
simply what it is – rhythm,
color, matter.”

ATV, 187; p. 175
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“I don't paint, I hit.”

quote circa 1958; from the movie 'De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel', Jan Vrijman; as quoted in De Tweede Helft, Ad de Visser, SUN Nijmegen, 1998

“Willem de Kooning, they say, lost his memory. He lost his worldly memory. He lost the names of the people, he lost their faces... This is one of the reasons he paints as a real painter.”