Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffetwas a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l'art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured...
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth31 July 1901
Jean Dubuffet quotes about
dance dancing lasts
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
creativity mean imagination
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
art mean men
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.