What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is. — 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
