For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.