"What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous,……" — 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 with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers."
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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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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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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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