I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
- Jean Dubuffet
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore. - Jean Dubuffet
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pur… - Jean Dubuffet
(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pur…
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, a… - Jean Dubuffet
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, a…
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right. - Jean Dubuffet
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself… - Jean Dubuffet
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself…
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being… - Jean Dubuffet
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being…
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but withou… - Jean Dubuffet
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but withou…
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. - Jean Dubuffet
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
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