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

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

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! 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.

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.

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.

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.