Francis Picabia quotes

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. (Francis Picabia)
Only useless things are indispensable. View quote
Francis Picabia
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. View quote
Francis Picabia
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back. View quote
Francis Picabia
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. View quote
Francis Picabia
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. View quote
Francis Picabia
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt. View quote
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God invented concubinage, satan marriage. View quote
Francis Picabia
Good taste is as tiring as good company. View quote
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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. View quote
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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. (Francis Picabia)
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. View quote
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. View quote
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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men. View quote
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The essence of a man is found in his faults. View quote
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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. View quote
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place. View quote
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FRANCIS PICABIA is an imbecile, an idiot, a pickpocket!!! 1921 BUT He saved Arp from constipation! The first mechanical work was created by madam Tzara the Day she put little Tristan into the world, however she didn't know it funny girl Francis Picabia is an imbecilic Spanish professor who has never been dada FRANCIS PICABIA IS NOTHING FRANCIS PICABIS likes the morality of idiots Arp's binocle is Tristan's testicle FRANCIS PICABIS IS NOTHING!!!!!!!!!! But Arp was Dada before Dada. View quote
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Udnie – I see Again in Memory my Dear Udnie' is no more the portrait of a young girl than 'Edtaonisl' (counterpart of his work 'Udnie'] is the image of a prelate, as we ordinarily conceive of them. They are [both] memories of America, evocations of over there which, subtly set down like musical chords, become representative of an idea, a nostalgia, a fleeting impression. View quote
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Nature is unfair So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. View quote
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All beliefs are bald ideas. (Francis Picabia)
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries. View quote
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Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty. View quote
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It is not a recognisable scene [his two paintings 'Dances at the spring', 1912 - Picabia painted the motion and the excitement of a peasant dance while he was on his honeymoon in the countryside of Italy; one version is lost]. There is no dancer, no spring, no light, no perspective, nothing other than the visible clue of the sentiments I am trying to express... I would draw your attention to a song of colours, which will bring out for others the joyful sensations and feelings inspired in me on those summer days when I found myself somewhere in the country near the Italian border, where there was a spring in a wonderful garden. A photograph of that spring and that garden would in now way look like my painting 'Dance at a spring' I was shown for the first time at the w:Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1912. View quote
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.. giving plastic reality to inner states of the mind. View quote
Francis Picabia