Jean Dubuffet Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Children, Ambition

• 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

  Painting, Language, Abstract

• I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Way, Painting, Aesthetic

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 430, 1967.

• With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Butterfly, Order, Wings

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