Francis Picabia Quotations

The future is a monotonous instrument

All beliefs are bald ideas.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Only useless things are indispensable.

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

Taste is tiring like good company.

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.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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