Quotes from Francis Picabia

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

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

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

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

All beliefs are bald ideas.

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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.

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

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

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

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

Only useless things are indispensable.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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

Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.

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