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Jean Dubuffet

"I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform."

Source : "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 483, 1967.

Jean Dubuffet

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