Jean Dubuffet Quote

At present [around 1960-1970] 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.

p. 81; Comment on the occasion of his 1984 exhibition at the Venice Biennale - Attributed from posthumous publications - Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews, 2006