Jean Dubuffet Quote

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 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition (ed. Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1993)


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.

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.

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.

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.