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“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Two #World #Categories
“The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Night #Devil #Day And Night
“God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.”
-- Francis Picabia

#God #Satan
“Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Pain #Reason #Pleasure
“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

#Equality #Boredom #Unfair
“If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Art #Ideas #Want
“New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.”
-- Francis Picabia

#New York #Cities #Architecture
“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

#Space #Victory #Defeat
“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

#Enthusiasm #Pages #Way
“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

#Art #Taken #Men
“All beliefs are bald ideas.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Ideas #Belief
“Only useless things are indispensable.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Useless #Indispensable #Uselessness
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Freedom #Free Spirit #Liberty
“The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Men #Spirit
“The future is a monotonous instrument”
-- Francis Picabia

#Instruments #Monotonous
“Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery”
-- Francis Picabia

#Men #Degrees #Misery
“Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Animal #Greatness #Men
“The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Fighting #Winning #Way
“A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Work #Gadgets #Lasts
“My ***** contemplates those who talk behind my back.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Gossip #Behind My Back #Ass
“Taste is tiring like good company.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Taste #Tire #Good Company
“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

#Hero #Artist #Idols
“Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Death #Hands #Faces
“Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Time #Men #Youth
“The essence of a man is found in his faults.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Men #Essence #Faults
“Good taste is as tiring as good company.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Taste #Tire #Good Company
“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

#Blue #Red #Naked
“We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Responsibility #Ignorant #Responsible
“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”
-- Francis Picabia

#Knowledge #Errors #Youth
“Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..”
-- Francis Picabia

#God #Men #Needs

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