Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffetwas a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth31 July 1901
art normal depth
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 unexpected surprise
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.
strong art men
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.
want limits camels
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
art children ambition
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.
goodbye long territory
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.
believe mean passion
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
art communication language
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.
dance dancing lasts
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
creativity mean imagination
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
art mean men
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.