I have always been haunted by ...

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

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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
 Jean Dubuffet
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.
 Jean Dubuffet
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
 Jean Dubuffet
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
 Jean Dubuffet
Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?
 Jean Dubuffet