Francis Picabia Quotes

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

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  Failure, Two, World

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

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  Night, Devil, Day And Night

  Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

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

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  Art, Useless, Impossible

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

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

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  Art, Ideas, Want

  "Picabia 1879-1953".

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• 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.

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  Space, Victory, Defeat

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• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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  Gossip, Behind My Back, Ass

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

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• God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

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  Marriage, God, Satan

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• Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

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  Pain, Indifference, Reason

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• A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

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  Freedom, Free Spirit, Liberty

  "Francis Picabia, Trouble Maker" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Nausea, Principles, Enthusiasm

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• 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.

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  Art, Taken, Men

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• 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.

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  Blue, Naked, Red

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• 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

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  Hero, Artist, Idols

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

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  Responsibility, Ignorant, Responsible

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• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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  Knowledge, Errors, Youth

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

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  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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

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  Men, Degrees, Misery

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

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  Nature, Equality, Boredom

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

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  New York, Cities, Spirit

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

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  God, Animal, Greatness

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

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  Death, Hands, Dying

  Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

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• Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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  Taste, Tire, Good Company

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• The future is a monotonous instrument

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  Instruments, Monotonous

  Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

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

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  Fighting, Winning, Way

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

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  Time, Men, Youth

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