Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

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

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

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

In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?

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