Francis Picabia

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

— Francis Picabia

All beliefs are bald ideas.

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

— Francis Picabia

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

— Francis Picabia

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

— Francis Picabia

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

— Francis Picabia

Taste is tiring like good company.

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia