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Francis Picabia
French
Artist
About the author
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#God
#Men
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Talk
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Youth
#Reason
#Man
#Old
#Act
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#World
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Family
#Man
#Spirit
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Man
#Faults
Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Talk
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Work
#Worth
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#God
#Forget
#Man
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Youth
#Knowledge
#Error
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Want
#Ideas
#Change
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Taste
#Company
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#God
#Marriage
#Satan
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Death
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Pleasure
#Pain
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Men
#Misery
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia,
French
Artist
#Liberty
#Spirit