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It may be that artistic creation, with all that it calls for in the way of free inventiveness, takes place at a higher pitch of tension in the nameless crowd of ordinary people, because practiced without applause or profit, for the maker’s own delight; and that the over-publicised activity of proffessionals produces merely a specious form of art, all too often watered down and doctored. If this were so, it is rather cultural art that should be described as marginal.

Michel Thevoz, Art Brut, 1975

People laughed, disaproved, and criticised me, but as this sort of alienation was neither contagious not dangerous, they didn’t see much point in fetching the doctor, and i was thus able to give myself up to my passion.

Ferdinand Cheval, Autobiography, 1911.