"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal……" — Jean Dubuffet
"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."
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Jean Dubuffet
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19 Quotes by Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet has 19 quotes on this site.
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely…
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never…
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Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of…
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Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own…
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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of…
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I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all…
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out…
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries…
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When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at…
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Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.
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Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore,
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More Creativity Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
— Isaac Asimov
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
— Lauren Bacall
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
— Ansel Adams
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— Scott Adams
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