Francis Picabia's Quotes

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Only useless things are indispensable.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

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

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

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

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

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

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

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