What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.

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.

If you believe you can achieve your dreams, you find the strength to pursue it.

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

I promise not to hurt you, unless you try to take my shit. Then I'll twist your head off and hide it in a bush somewhere.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all of that was given to us.