Quote by Jean Dubuffet

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.


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Summary

This quote suggests that culture is obsessed with quantifying and categorizing things, while disregarding the value of anonymous and countless growth. Culture's inclination towards measurement limits and restricts various aspects instead of embracing infinite possibilities. The quote highlights culture's discomfort with the immeasurable and its tendency to simplify and confine knowledge within predefined boundaries.

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Culture
By Jean Dubuffet
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