Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

- 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…

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

- Jean Dubuffet