Murlidhar Devidas Amte
Murlidhar Devidas Amte

I was tempted by Shankar bhagwan. He too has spondylitis but uses a cobra as a brace.

Karel Appel
Karel Appel

The Cobra group started new, and first of all we threw away all these things we had known and started afresh, like a child — fresh and new. Sometimes my works look very childish, or childlike, schizophrenic or stupid, you know. But that was the good thing for me. Because, for me, the material is the paint itself. The paint expresses itself. In the mass of paint, I find my imagination and go on

to paint it.

Karel Appel
Karel Appel

Of course, I painted before Cobra, as afterwards. Each one of us [CoBrA-artists] had his own personality. Cobra is only a very short period of my life. It was like a crossroads. We crossed paths and each continued on his way.... We [artists] are not born to form groups. A group that lasted for too long would destroy the creative activity of its members.

Die City Cobra
Die City Cobra

Gonzales: "Das sollten Sie mal Cobra fragen, er ist dafür der Experte." Ingrid: "Er sieht garnicht aus wie ein Experte, oder?" Gonzales: "Das ist war, er sieht eher aus wie ein entflohender Häftling."