Inspirational Art Quotes by the expressionist French
painter Jean Dubuffet
born Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet - France
- July 31, 1901 / Died - Paris May 12, 1985
Popular Jean Dubuffet works include several expressive
paintings like "Il flûte sur la bosse,
1947", "La belle encornée, 1954",
and "Les commentaires, 1978".
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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
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ Personally, I believe very much in values of
savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence,
madness.
+ We intend with these works executed by those
unscathed by artistic culture, in which, the mimesis
has little role in the way that the artist draws
everything (subject, choice of material, the creative
process, ways of expressing an idea, rhythms,
etc) from their own depths and, unlike intellectuals,
not from the convensions of classical or fashionable
art.
+ For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal
is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination,
lack of creativity.
+ We participate in an artistic process which
is completely pure, raw, entirely reinvented in
all of its phases by the artist, from his impulses
alone. Therefore, of an art which manifests itself
through the function of invention only, and not
those, constant in cultural art, of cameleon and
monkey.
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