Jean Dubuffet in artist quotes on his painting & sculpture - free resource, French art history

Jean Dubuffet, in quotes of the artist on his Art-Brut paintings & sculptures and his artistic life in France** - free art-resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Jean Dubuffet’s artist quotes inform us about his ‘Art Brut’, which is strongly connected with later Outsider art. Dubuffet launched the idea of ‘Art Brute’ in the 1950’s in France as an unique and new concept in modern art. Art Brute meant spontaneous and direct art, created by non-professionals like psychiatric patients, prisoners and children - without any aesthetic standards. The essence of Art Brut was to reach by creation the emotional and direct source of creation.

Jean Dubuffet started late as an artist in France, but he developed himself radically with a strong focus on the material side of creating art.
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Some selected artist-quotes of French artist Jean Dubuffet - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold.’ - quote of Dubuffet, ‘Prospectus aux amateurs de tout genre’, Jean Dubuffet, 1946, p. 115

• ’Our point of view on this question of the function of art is the same in all cases: there’s no more an art of the insane than there is an art of dyspeptic people or the art of people with knee problems. - quote of Dubuffet, in: ‘Art Brut Preferred to the Cultural Arts’, Dubuffet, 1949

• ’A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person’s being… …It is my belief that only in this ‘Art Brut’ can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.’ - Dubuffet’s quote, in: ‘Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967 - Vol. II’, Gallimard, Paris 1967, p. 202
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  selection of free art-resources on French artist Jean Dubuffet:

  • extended biographical notes of Dubuffet, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Dubuffet, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet
  • images of his painting & sculpture art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-dubuffet
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]