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"What an adventure you have thrown me into! Nothing was farther from my thoughts than doing portraits! Now its all I think about.. ..and is all your handiwork"
Jean DubuffetArt does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as — Jean Dubuffet
"Art does not lie down on the bed that is made for it; it runs away as soon as one says its name; it loves to go incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called."
Jean Dubuffet
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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art brut movement, and for the collection of works—Collection de l
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