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

— Jean Dubuffet

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Quote in the text of Jean Dubuffet, 'Project pour un petit texte liminaire introduisant les publications de 'L'art brut dans l'écrire', 1969 (1969), published in Le Langage de la rupture, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1978

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