Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

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.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

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

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

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