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Jean Dubuffet Quotes: Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
         

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.


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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.



Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.



Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.



Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.



The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.



Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.



Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.



Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.



Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.



Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.





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I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

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