Quotes by Dubuffet, Jean

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. >>

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all >>

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination >>

Quotations about Culture

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappe >>

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and sea >>

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, yo >>

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.

Dubuffet, Jean