"But Appel is more an assembler than a sculptor. Although now and then he carves wood or models plaster his works are …"

"Occasion is a good word: it speaks of an 'offered case'. The painter also lives on such plundering. Karel Appel is to…"

"The painter is the first dancer of his work. Appel understands the appeal to disturb the finished work as he is in th…"

"It is painting and sculpture [of Karel Appel] at its best. It is close to the heart, animalistic, idealistic, and tho…"

"The body trained to deal with worries and with itself falls apart. A contradictory body rises from it, a will to see …"

"..Appel does not hesitate to expose his colour to rubbish. More than any other this work returns 'aesthetic discourse…"

"Of course, I painted before Cobra, as afterwards. Each one of us [CoBrA-artists] had his own personality. Cobra is on…"

"in Dutch: Ik schilder als een barbaar in deze barbaarse tijd."

"Knowledge isolates phenomena and things to observe with.. ..nothing is isolatable or can be removed from its environm…"

"I have painted like an ape. The ape phase is in all my work. My first lick of paint is the ape phase, from that I gro…"