Jean Dubuffet

Naissance 1901 · Décès 1985

Originaire de Le Havre, Normandy, France · Nationalité : France · Écrit des essais et documents

Citations

“From the point of view of technique, I liked there to be internal lines in objects, I mean that instead of circumscribing forms, they animate the insides of things—the inside of formless and non-delimited areas. They function as internal textures and not primarily as contours.”
1960-70's, p. 47En anglais
“Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.”
posthumousEn anglais
“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.”
Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 14En anglais
“There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.”
Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 206En anglais

Les livres de Jean Dubuffet dans l'ordre de parution, de Peintures Initiatiques d'Alfonso Ossorio (1951) à Correspondance, 1956-1964 (2006).