"I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots."

-- Jean Dubuffet

#Roots Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.”
“For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.”
“If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.”
“I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.”
“I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.”

Source : "Who the Fuck is Pete Doherty?". June 6, 2005.
“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”
“I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.”
“I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.”

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