in 'The eye of the beholder', Carlo McCormick
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged
Karel Appel: Frases en inglés
Quoted in: 'Karel Appel, Dutch Expressionist Painter, Dies at 85', by Margalit Fox, in 'Art & Design', New York Times May 9, 2006
Quote of an oral history in 'Contemporary Artists' - Karel Appel describes the wild artistic urgency that gave rise to the Cobra artist-group
“.. people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk.”
Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968
in 'The eye of the beholder', Carlo McCormick
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged
quotes from Appel's poem '..and now I want to talk about Willem de Kooning, February 1990 http://beeldgedicht.info/Reprocitaat/appel-kooning.htm
Quote of Appel in an interview with fr:Michel Ragon, 1963; as quoted in; Karel Appel, a gesture of colour, Jean-François Lyotard, (original French text of 1992 based upon intensive correspondence with Karel Appel), Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Herman Parret; University Press, Leuven, Belgium, 2009, p. 105
fr:Michel Ragon asked Appel: 'Without Cobra, would you have been what you are today?'
Quote from a talk in 1990 with Rudi Fuchs; in 'Appel, about growing older'; as quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12(2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php
“Pollock... I also feel
like an erupting volcano.”
ATV, 187; p. 167
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ATV 13; p. 121
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Appel's quote is referring to his youth in Amsterdam, in the outskirts and the ports of the Dutch city
Fuente: Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990), pp. 75-77 'Quotes', K. Appel (1989)
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged
Fuente: Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990), p. 93 'Quotes', K. Appel (1989)
Appel's quote is referring to his sculpture 'Monument for Walt Whitman', dedicated to the American poet
CF 63; p. 111
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Quote in a letter of Karel Appel from Paris to Aldo van Eyck, October 1950; as quoted in (MR1-85); Karel Appel, a gesture of colour, Jean-François Lyotard, (original French text of 1992 based upon intensive correspondence with Karel Appel), Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Herman Parret; University Press, Leuven, Belgium, 2009, p. 99
Quote from an interview in 'Elsevier', 22 December, 1990; translated and quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12 (2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php
ATV 187; p. 151
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explaining his way of imagination
Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968
Quote from a 1995 interview with Rudi Fuchs; in 'Appel, about growing older'; as quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12(2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged
“I am afraid of a new barbarism which is killing
man's freedom.”
ATV 179; p. 151
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CF,28; p. 219
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1973 - from CF,35; p. 67
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“Theories / are things... Absence and nonexistence / of theories are things.”
quote 1983 - from CF, 63; p. 55
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AF, 73; p. 161
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
quote, 1984 - from ATV', 188; p. 49
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
Appel is referring to the Italian movie-maker Pasolini
Fuente: Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990), pp. 75-77 'Quotes', K. Appel (1989)
Fuente: Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990), p. 91 'Quotes', K. Appel (1989)
“A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again.”
quote 1982 - from CF, 48; p. 83
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