Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify. Francis Picabia More Quotes by Francis Picabia More Quotes From Francis Picabia The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. Francis Picabia failuretwoworld The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone. Francis Picabia day-and-nightdevilnight God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. Francis Picabia satanmarriagegod 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. Francis Picabia defeatvictoryspace If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts. Francis Picabia wantideasart 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 Francis Picabia artistidolshero A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. Francis Picabia free-spiritlibertyfreedom Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. Francis Picabia indifferencepainreason Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery Francis Picabia miserydegreesmen A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. Francis Picabia gadgetslastswork We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them. Francis Picabia ignorantresponsibleresponsibility My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. Francis Picabia behind-my-backassgossip 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. Francis Picabia nakedredblue New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. Francis Picabia citiesnew-yorkspirit 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. Francis Picabia takenmenart Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. Francis Picabia boredomequalitynature 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. Francis Picabia nauseaprinciplesenthusiasm The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries. Francis Picabia fightingwinningway Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. Francis Picabia youtherrorsknowledge Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men. Francis Picabia godmenneeds
