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.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

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!

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

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