The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

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

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

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

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

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