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

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

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.

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.

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

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.