“('My three year old daughter can do as much'.) Yes, it is true, but the difference is that I do it.”

—  Karel Appel

MR1, 51; p. 197
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

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Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet 1921–2006

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