Francis Picabia Quotes

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

Only useless things are indispensable.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Taste is tiring like good company.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.