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

— Karel Appel

Quote from 'The eye of the beholder', Carlo McCormick
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged

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Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet 1921–2006

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