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

KAIROS A unique time in a person's life; an opportunity for change. — May Sarton

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

How could something that felt so right actually be so wrong? — Susane Colasanti

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

Art should be born from the materials. — Jean Dubuffet

If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity, — Margaret Trudeau

With imagination, I'll get there. — Harry Connick Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity. — Jean Dubuffet

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

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I didn't like that feeling, it made me sad in places of my heart that I didn't know existed. — Trish Marie Dawson

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

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

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor. — Hugh Grant

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

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

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth. — Sara Shepard