Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

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.

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

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

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

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.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.