--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: People have seen that I intend to sweep…" description: "\"“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/jean-dubuffet-15341_art_people-have-seen-that-i-intend-to-sweep_970973.jpg" --- # People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we… ![“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more…” quote by Jean Dubuffet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/jean-dubuffet-15341_art_people-have-seen-that-i-intend-to-sweep_970973.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/jean-dubuffet-15341_art_people-have-seen-that-i-intend-to-sweep_970973.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8a/jean-dubuffet-15341_art_people-have-seen-that-i-intend-to-sweep_970973.jpg) > ““People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating… I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration… I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.”” [Jean Dubuffet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dubuffet/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Art should celebrate everyday objects and transform ordinary perception into profound experience. **In simple terms:** Art makes the mundane meaningful. Key Takeaway Seek beauty in daily life. Themes art perception beauty everyday life Mood contemplative hopeful Type philosophical inspirational When to use this quote - gallery c - home décor - urban design Key Concepts aesthetic philosophy existentialism Questions to Reflect On - What ordinary thing inspires you? - How does art reshape your view? 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