Francis Picabia Quotes

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