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“This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting”

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Fernand Léger was a French painter known for his geometric abstract style and bold use of color. His works hold a significant place in 20th-century art history and have had a profound impact on subsequent artists. more

“The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.”

World Looks Pieces Sea Huge Roots Empty Bases Silent Wide Snow Naked Desert Unlimited Continuity Homogeneity

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.”

Believe Mean Values Passion I Believe Violence Madness Instinct Mood Savagery

Book:Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery

Source: Dubuffet: Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches 1946-1966 ; March, 1974, Donald Morris Gallery

“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.”

Men Mean Littles Long Art Reason Laughing Degrees Highest Art Is Mad Burning Bores Intoxication Dementia Delirium Make You Laugh

Book:Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition

Source: Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition

“Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.”

Art Made Moments Running Names Sleep Forget Bed Likes Running Away Going To Sleep Best Moments

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?”

Knows Men Wells Doe Whole Names Deserve Lifetime Whole Life Companion Serving Shells Dirt Foxes Spiders Trash Fur Filth Necklaces Rarity

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.”

World Children Art Done Desire Artist Lost Given Interest My Own Pleasure Careers Painting Fit Ambition Museums Given Up Gallery

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”

Feels Trying Culture Numbers Effort Taste Limits Fingers Contrary Uncomfortable Domain Counting Measuring Smitten

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”

States Eye Faces Culture Imagine Police Ministry Commissioners

Author:Jean Dubuffet

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

Want Limits Draws Camels

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.”

Thinking White Property Zinc

Author:Edward Hopper

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