5 Quotes & Sayings By Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet was a French art critic and theorist who was a major figure in the development of Post-Painterly Abstraction. He was a student of André Breton and André Masson, and an important influence on the art world at large. His best known works are included in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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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
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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. 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 a long wearing away of oneself. 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 a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. Jean Dubuffet