Jean-Paul Dumont, 1985

In his improvisation, the "bricoleur" is perforce a creative recycler who uses or rather re-uses bits and pieces, odds and ends, discarded elements, all of which have been disengaged from their actual function. The "bricoleur's" rearrangement instills in them a new life. To that extent, no need of fancy projects: jotting, at lunch, a phone number on a paper napkin or using, on one's desk, a yogurt pot as a pencil holder are already akin to bricolage. In fact, knowingly or not, by taste or perforce, with more or less success, willy-nilly, we are all "bricoleurs" and thus all of us participate in savage thought...

"Who Are the Bricoleurs?" in American Journal of Semiotics 3.3 (1985), p. 30