Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me. — 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
