A Quote by Jean Dubuffet

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

Jean Dubuffet

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Art Delirium Intoxication Mad Mean Reason Without

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Jean Dubuffet
French - Artist
July 31, 1901 - May 12, 1985

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Jean Dubuffet

I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility.

Doris Lessing

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

W.N.P. Barbellion

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Cyril Connolly

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

Francis of Assisi

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

William Rounseville Alger

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

Henry Van Dyke

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Oscar Wilde

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

August Bournonville

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.