‘Modernism drew its inspiration from two principal sources: the exotic arts, especially so-called “primitive” art, and the work of autodidacts, of children and people cut off from the mainstream art world, especially inmates of mental hospitals,’ writes Jean-Hubert Martin in the exhibition catalogue Dubuffet et l’art brut.’  

from Arnold Odermatt – Beyond the Seven Mountains – The Unsanctioned Artist’s Candid Eye   Caroline Recher