Jean Dubuffet Quotes

children's art is completely opposed to what interests me, because it's an effort to assimilate culture..

Jean Dubuffet

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Losing

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Children
  • Never
  • Wanted

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  

  Kajol
  • Great
  • Live
  • Change

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • Experience

• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Men
  • Children
  • Morning

• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Art
  • You

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Art
  • Know
  • Respect

• You've got to want to compete with the best of the best and when the pressure's on.

  

  Alex Bregman
  • Best
  • Pressure
  • Compete

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

  

  Joschka Fischer
  • World
  • Education

• children's art is completely opposed to what interests me, because it's an effort to assimilate culture..

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Children
  • Art
  • Culture