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> [I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/i-had-given-up-around-1950-fh-any-ambition-of-making-a-career-as-an/)

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## More by Jean Dubuffet

> [Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/painting-is-a-richer-language-than-words-painting-operates-through/)

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> [What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/what-seems-interesting-to-me-is-to-reproduce-in-the-figurative/)

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> [Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/caprice-independence-and-rebellion-which-are-opposed-to-the-social/)

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> [Art should be born from the materials.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/art-should-be-born-from-the-materials/)

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> [I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/i-associated-it-the-word-hourloupe-as-title-of-his-longest-series-of/)

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> [I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/i-would-like-people-to-see-my-work-as-a-rehabilitation-of-scorned/)

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> [I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/i-have-always-been-haunted-by-the-feeling-that-the-painter-has-much/)

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> [There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/there-is-no-such-thing-as-abstract-art-or-else-all-art-is-abstract/)

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> [What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/what-i-expect-from-any-work-of-art-is-that-it-surprises-me-that-it/)

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> [I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/i-have-tried-to-draw-the-human-effigy-and-all-the-other-subjects/)

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> [“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/people-have-seen-that-i-intend-to-sweep-away-everything-we-have-been/)

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> [Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/normal-means-lack-of-imagination-and-creativity/)

[Jean Dubuffet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dubuffet/)

> [What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/what-culture-lacks-is-the-taste-for-anonymous-innumerable-germination/)

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> [For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/for-me-insanity-is-super-sanity-the-normal-is-psychotic-normal-means/)

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> [The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/the-things-we-truly-love-the-things-forming-the-basis-and-roots-of/)

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