Francis Picabia

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

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

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

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

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

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

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

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.

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

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

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

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

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

Only useless things are indispensable.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.