"In the name of what - except perhaps……" — Jean Dubuffet
"In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?"
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Jean Dubuffet
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19 Quotes by Jean Dubuffet
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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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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
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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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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not…
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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits…
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It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors…
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous…
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What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger.…
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to…
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A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected…
— George Washington
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Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had…
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