Contemplating Quotes by Francis Picabia

One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all…

— Francis Picabia

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

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

— Francis Picabia

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is…

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

“Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia”

— Francis Picabia

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

— Francis Picabia

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

The future is a monotonous instrument

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia

“Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth”

— Francis Picabia

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

— Francis Picabia