Quotes from Francis Picabia

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

All the painters who appear in our museums are failures at painting; the only people ever talked about are failures; the world is divided into two categories of people: failures and those unknown.

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth

My painting is a contest between life and sleep.

Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

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

Paralysis is the first stage of wisdom.

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

The future is a monotonous instrument.

Success is a liar liars love success

Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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

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

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

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

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

Only useless things are indispensable.