Karel Appel was asked "How do your ideas come to you? How do you find them?
He said, "Do I really "find" them? What I try to do is just remain open so as to register the perpetual meamorphosis of the world. The eye remains on the alert, like a radar."
"It's difficult for us to get off the rails of routine. We stop seeing the world. Our gaze becomes fixed, the world grinds to a halt. It's death closing in."
"In every artist there's an eternal nomad. By that I mean he can't settle dowm, make himself a niche in things as they are, what's established in any society..."
"Matter was not to be possesed , but to be transformed."
"Van Gogh made me see that will power is maybe more important and fertile than talent."
"The obstinate ursuit of rational investigation means the end of a contemplative approach to the world. A preconceived rationality often means nothing more than cultural superstition."
"It was in Peru that I came to udnerstand better the meaning of my own "kinetic" experience, as I watched the people living."
"There's no single 'key' to explain things."
"I refuse viscerally any conception of society that tends to turn us into prisoners. Prisoners of othe rpoeple or of ourselves!"
Posted by Michael Diezmos at April 29, 2006 11:53 AM