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

About Francis Picabia

Francis Picabiawas a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
When considering the many styles that Picabia painted in, observers have described his career as “shape-shifting” or “kaleidoscopic”.

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

Only useless things are indispensable.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

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

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Francis Picabia

French painter and writer (1879-1953)