Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), full name Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet. was a French painter and sculptor. He is known for his idealistic approach to aesthetics. He embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves; and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

- quoted in The New York Times, obituary, May 15, 1985

• Being and thought are one.

- Ibid.

Vittorio De Sica