Jean Dubuffet Quotes

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• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of…
• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
• The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece…
• Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia!…
• 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…
• In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs,…
• 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…
• What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with…
• The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and…
• When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
• Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.
• Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore,
• 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 to remind him…
• Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
• Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are…
• Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much…
• I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work…
• Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

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