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“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
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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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“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.”
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“The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
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“...But the ultimate question is, Do the eyes receive other things than what the mind projects on them; aren't they really mirrors reflecting the mind's emissions? Perhaps we live in a world invented by ourselves.”
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“« L’art ne vient pas coucher dans les lits qu’on a faits pour lui ; il se sauve aussitôt qu’on prononce son nom »”
― Jean Dubuffet: Les Dernières Années
― Jean Dubuffet: Les Dernières Années
“La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón”
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“Dans le sillage de ce rappel, on comprend que la finalité de l’art, si elle ne doit jamais être commerciale ou se contenter de fournir de la valeur ajoutée à une « élite », ne peut pas plus être seulement thérapeutique, sociale, ou politique. Pour la raison qu’il doit être tout cela à la fois.”
― Jean Dubuffet: Les Dernières Années
― Jean Dubuffet: Les Dernières Années
