Art Quote by Francis Picabia Download Open image “Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.” — Francis Picabia ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Beauty Extremes Impossible Justify Useless
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
“Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia” — Francis Picabia Copy Share
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
