Jean Dubuffet Quotes About Art
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There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.
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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.
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Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.
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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.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.
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Art should be born from the materials.
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What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.
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(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 pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.
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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 without art we die of boredom.
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Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
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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 name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.
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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, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.
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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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The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
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There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. 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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