Francis Picabia quotes:

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

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

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

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

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

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

Only useless things are indispensable.

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

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

Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.

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

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.

The future is a monotonous instrument

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

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

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

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

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.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

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

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

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.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

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

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

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

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Taste is tiring like good company.