Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.
Jean DubuffetThe real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.
Jean DubuffetThere is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!
Jean DubuffetIn 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?
Jean DubuffetThe 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.
Jean Dubuffet