Jean Dubuffet Quotes

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What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.

Jean Dubuffet

Starting from a drawing, a pure creation of the mind, I expand it in space by giving it three dimensions, by giving it a material body [in polystyrene] and then enlarge it to the proportions of a site where it can evolve. In this way, instead of having only the drawing before you while remaining anchored in the everyday world, you can finally leave the world and penetrate into drawing, and thus inhabit the creation of the mind instead of merely looking at it prudently in a frame on the wall. The experience consists, therefore, in abstracting yourself totally from the natural everyday world in order to feed your eyes solely on your own mental elaborations.

Jean Dubuffet

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet

Born: July 31, 1901

Died: May 12, 1985 (aged 83)

Bio: Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor.

Known for:

Group of Four Trees
Monument with Standing Beast (1984)
L'Hourloupe (1966)
Monument au Fantôme (1983)
Tour aux figures

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