Jean Dubuffet Quotes
..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
Quotes to Explore
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
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Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.
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There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.
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..the wind of 'art brut' blows on writing as well as on other avenues of artistic creation.
