“The eye perceives what is hard and what is soft, what is porous and what is impervious, what is warm to the touch and what is cold.”
Quote of Jean Dubuffet, from 'L'auteur répond à quelques objections', (1946); as cited in Prospectus aux amateurs de tout genre, Jean Dubuffet; Paris: Gallimard, 1946, p. 115
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“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”
“What has value in their eyes is never what is done for them; it's what they do for themselves.”
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 315
This exact expression has not been located in available editions of this work, and might be simply a paraphrase of the above statement.
Variant: To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
Source: Kindergarten Chats (1918), Ch. 36 : Another City
Source: Rappaccini's Daughter
“The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.”