Karel Appel Quotes

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Karel Appel

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• Primitive
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• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

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• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

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• I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

  

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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

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• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

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• What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

  

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• My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

  

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

  

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• All artists are equal when they are themselves.

  

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• Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

  

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• In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

  

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• The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.

  

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• I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

  

  Karel Appel
  • Happiness
  • Expression
  • Primitive