"Dancing is the last word in life. In……" — Jean Dubuffet

"Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself."

— Jean Dubuffet

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19 Quotes by Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely…
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…
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…
Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own…
In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of…
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all…
What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out…
The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries…
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at…
Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

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More Dance Quotes

This quote is filed under Dance Quotes, one of 3,665 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how… — Margaret Atwood
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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