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 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.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

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.