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Jean Dubuffet quotes: 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.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: 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.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: Art should be born from the materials.

Art should be born from the materials.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: 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.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

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

Jean Dubuffet quotes: What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: 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.

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.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: 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,

Jean Dubuffet quotes: Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Jean Dubuffet quotes: I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

Jean Dubuffet quotes: 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.