At present I make objects (whether a type-writer, wheelbarrow, bed or fishingboat...) very 'hourloupés'. What I mean is that I am swimming upstream against the 'l'Hourloupe' current. I am approaching it from the opposite direction: instead of starting out with indeterminate lines that eventually give me a wheelbarrow, I start out with the idea of making a wheelbarrow and then add my indeterminate lines. In effect what I am doing is making the current run simultaneously in both directions at the same time.
On the occasion of his 1984 exhibition at the Venice Biennale
As quoted in: Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews (2006), p. 80
