Best 25 quotes of Francis Picabia on MyQuotes

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

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

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

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

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.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

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

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.

Only useless things are indispensable.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Taste is tiring like good company.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.