Caprice Quote 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…

— Jean Dubuffet

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

Art should be born from the materials.

— Jean Dubuffet

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

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

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

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

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

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

“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty;…

— Jean Dubuffet

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

— 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…

— Jean Dubuffet