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The painting will not be looked at passively, not embraced all at once by an observer's immediate gaze. But relived in its elaboration, remade by thought and if I dare say reacted.. .All the gestures made by the painter, he [the observer] feels them reproduced in him.

— Jean Dubuffet

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There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.

What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallizes into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

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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.

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