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