[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

It is either easy or impossible.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.