LET US REJECT TEDIOUS WORK. IT GOES AGAINST HUMAN NATURE, AGAINST THE COSMIC RHYTHMS, IT GOES AGAINST MAN HIMSELF, TO TAKE TROUBLE WHEN NONE IS NEEDED. IT IS NATURAL FOR HIM TO APPLY HIMSELF TO AVOIDING SUCH WORK; TO USE EVERY INSTRUMENT THAT COMES TO HAND, EVERY FAVORABLE CHANCE WHICH CAN HELP HIM OUT, TO MAKE HIS WORK EASIER AND MORE PLEASANT. TEDIOUS WORK IS INHUMAN AND REPUGNANT, EVERY WORK WHICH SHOWS SIGNS OF IT IS UGLY. IT IS PLEASURE AND EASE, WITHOUT HARSHNESS AND CONSTRAINT, WHICH CREATE GRACE IN EVERY HUMAN GESTURE.

an excerpt from Dubuffet's "Notes for the Well-Lettered" Paris, 1967