When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

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.

Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.