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

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

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

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 things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.

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

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