My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
Karel AppelMy paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.
Karel AppelAs an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
Karel Appel