Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

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

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

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

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.

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

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

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

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

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

Poetry, will you show me where your words find peace?

Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world.

... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

Enjoy the fact that you're a woman and men will enjoy it too.

I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.