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