1878-1953, French Painter, Poet
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia – [Liberty]
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia – [Invention and Inventor]
All beliefs are bald ideas.
Francis Picabia – [Belief]
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Francis Picabia – [Death and Dying]
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
Francis Picabia – [Marriage]
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Francis Picabia – [Knowledge]
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia – [Greatness]
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Francis Picabia – [Misers and Misery]
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
Francis Picabia – [God]
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia – [Gossip]
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 – [Nature]
Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia – [Necessity]
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Francis Picabia – [Indifference]
Taste is tiring like good company.
Francis Picabia – [Taste]
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia – [Faults]
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia – [Family]
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
Francis Picabia – [Winners and Winning]
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia – [Failure]
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Francis Picabia – [Arts and Artists]
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Francis Picabia – [Youth]