“Fanfare for the Common Man”

February 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Artists

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“There are no more great men, no more geniuses. We are finally free of these malevolent dummies. Genius was an invention of the Greeks, like the centaurs and the hippogryphs. There are as many geniuses as there are unicorns. We have been so scared of them for three thousand years.

It is not men who are great. It is man who is great. It is not wonderful to be exceptional. It is wonderful to be a man.”

Jean Dubuffet, from “Notes for the Well-Lettered,” 1946

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