Top 33 Francis Picabia Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

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

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

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

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#7. The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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#8. Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.

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#9. Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth

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#10. The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

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#14. Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

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#15. Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.

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#16. My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

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

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#19. All the painters who appear in our museums are
failures at painting; the only people ever talked
about are failures; the world is divided into two
categories of people: failures and those unknown.

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#20. Taste is tiring like good company.

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#21. Only useless things are indispensable.

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#22. 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

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

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#24. A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

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

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#26. All beliefs are bald ideas.

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

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#28. My painting is a contest
between life and sleep.

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#29. Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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#30. Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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

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

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

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