Quotes by Jean Dubuffet

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.. ..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.

Art

Depth

Normal

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.

Art

Eye

Mind

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

Art

Communication

Language

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

Art

Art Is

Men

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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Funny

Mean

I associated it (the word ‘Hourloupe’, as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with ‘hurler’ (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), ‘Riquet à la Houppe’ and the title of Maupassant’s book ‘Le Horla’, inspired by mental distraction.

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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.

Ambition

Art

Children

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.

Feelings

Gains

Use

I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

Purpose

Roots

Solitude

I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.

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Elements

Real

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Quotes by Jean Dubuffet

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.. ..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.

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.

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

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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.

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.

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