Francis Picabia Quotes

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

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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

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

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

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

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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

Only useless things are indispensable.

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