Quotes by Picabia, Francis

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

Picabia, Francis on failure   

"The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous."

Picabia, Francis on family   

"The essence of a man is found in his faults."

Picabia, Francis on faults   

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

Picabia, Francis on god   

"My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back."

Picabia, Francis on gossip   

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

Picabia, Francis on greatness   

"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Picabia, Francis on indifference
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"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."

Picabia, Francis on invention and inventor   

"Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth."

Picabia, Francis on knowledge   

"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."

Picabia, Francis on liberty   

"God invented concubinage, Satan marriage."

Picabia, Francis on marriage   

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

Picabia, Francis on misers and misery   

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

Picabia, Francis on nature   

"Only useless things are indispensable."

Picabia, Francis on necessity   

"Wherever art appears, life disappears."

Picabia, Francis on art   

"All beliefs are bald ideas."

Picabia, Francis on belief   

"Taste is tiring like good company."

Picabia, Francis on taste   

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

Picabia, Francis on winners and winning   

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

Picabia, Francis on youth   

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

Picabia, Francis on death