What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

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

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

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

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

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.