"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."

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Source : "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, pp. 203-204, 1967.

Jean Dubuffet

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“Garlic is as good as ten mothers.”

Source : "Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers". Documentary, 1980.
“The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.”

Source : "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.
“I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.”
“We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.”
“I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.”
“Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.”
“The more you reason the less you create.”
“Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.”

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