Quotes By Francis Picabia

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

Only useless things are indispensable.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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

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.

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

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

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

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

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

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