Dubuffet Art Quotes

#1. Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore,

Jean Dubuffet

#3. 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.

Jean Dubuffet

#4. For who that noght dar undertake,
Be riht he schal no profit take
[For who that dare not undertake,
By right he shall no profit take.
i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]

John Gower

#5. Piracy is the new radio.

Neil Young

#6. 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.

Jean Dubuffet

#7. 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.

Jean Dubuffet

#8. Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

Jean Dubuffet

#9. There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

Jean Dubuffet

#10. Nine times out of ten I've no idea what I'm saying and I'm only ever nice to people because I don't have the charisma or the knowledge or any of that to get away with witty put-downs,

Kate Griffin

#11. You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

Eric Cantona

#12. Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

Alfredo Di Stefano

#13. The real me isn't someone you see but someone you know.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. 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.

Jean Dubuffet

#15. 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.

Jean Dubuffet

#16. Art should be born from the materials.

Jean Dubuffet

#17. (Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

Jean Dubuffet

#18. I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody.

Charles De Gaulle

#19. The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#20. The coo of a single dove had changed everything.

Dan Brown

#21. 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.

Jean Dubuffet

#22. The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

Jean Dubuffet

#23. People can only be found in what they do.

Timothy Findley

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

Jean Dubuffet