Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabiawas a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 January 1879
CountryFrance
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
The future is a monotonous instrument
All beliefs are bald ideas.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Only useless things are indispensable.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Taste is tiring like good company.
You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.