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
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.
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery
One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.