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

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painti….

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning ….

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (….

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

I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure in….

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!.

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of..

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action..

Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the….

The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empt….

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration..

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and unc….

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 ar….

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

Art should be born from the materials..

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

In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur ….

I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging gre….