Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty;… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
