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.

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.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Yatho Hasta thatho Drishti, Yatho Drishti thatho ManahYatho Manah thatho Bhaava, Yatho Bhaava thatho Rasa

Competition is about passion for perfection and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.