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 tho… - Jean Dubuffet

Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action

The Occidental man is not so bad.. .Not bad at all, the brave Aryan [inhabitant of the Saraha].. .I'm not unhappy to be living with him again.. ..one need not go outside of Europe in order to find truly "savage" individuals.. .These savage values to which I attribute more value than all others, appear to show themselves, in our worlds of Europe and America, more forcefully and tempestuously than in all other worlds..