Francis Picabia Quotes, thoughts, ideas and genial provocative quotations, a text that can help to understand the real essence of Surrealism and Dadaism.
The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.
Francis Picabia
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Francis Picabia
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
Francis Picabia
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
Francis Picabia
Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.
Francis Picabia
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
Francis Picabia
You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.
Francis Picabia
Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.
Francis Picabia
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Francis Picabia
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.
Francis Picabia
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia
Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth
Francis Picabia
Nature is unfairSo much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom
Francis Picabia
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Francis Picabia
Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Francis Picabia
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Francis Picabia
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
Francis Picabia
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia
All beliefs are bald ideas.
Francis Picabia
Youth doesn’t reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Francis Picabia
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Francis Picabia
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Francis Picabia
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Francis Picabia
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia
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