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

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

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

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.

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

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

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