"Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting……" — 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 much closer to the objects themselves."
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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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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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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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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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