"By Art Brut we mean works of art made by people unharmed by artistic culture, people who, contrary to what happens with intellectuals, are little or not at all influenced by mimicry, so that they draw everything (subject, choice of material, transposition, rhythm, handwriting) from their inner selves and not from the conventions of classic art or the art in vogue.
We see here a pure, raw artistic creation, in all its phases reinvented by its author, who takes his own impulses only to begin with."

Jean Dubuffet, 1949