Francis Picabia Quotes
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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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New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
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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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Good taste is as tiring as good company.
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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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The future is a monotonous instrument
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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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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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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
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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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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery
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Only useless things are indispensable.
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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
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Taste is tiring like good company.
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The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.
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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
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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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If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
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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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The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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All beliefs are bald ideas.
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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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The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
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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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