Francis Picabia
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.Collection: God
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.Collection: Change
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.Collection: Failure
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.Collection: Marriage
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Only useless things are indispensable.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.Collection: Art
The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.Collection: Night
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Space
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: nothingCollection: Hero
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Blue
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.Collection: Nausea
All beliefs are bald ideas.Collection: Inspirational
We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.Collection: Responsibility
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their miseryCollection: Men
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.Collection: Nature
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.Collection: New York
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.Collection: Fighting
The future is a monotonous instrumentCollection: Instruments
Taste is tiring like good company.Collection: Taste