Francis Picabia Quotes

1879–1953, French Painter, Poet · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“All beliefs are bald ideas.”
Belief
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“Taste is tiring like good company.”
Taste
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“Only useless things are indispensable.”
Necessity
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“God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.”
Marriage
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“The essence of a man is found in his faults.”
Faults
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“The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.”
Family
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“My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.”
Gossip
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“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”
Knowledge
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“Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.”
Indifference
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“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
Liberty
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“Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.”
Death and Dying
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“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”
Failure
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“The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.”
Winners and Winning
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“Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..”
God
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“Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.”
Misers and Misery
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“Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.”
Greatness
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“A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.”
Invention and Inventor
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“Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.”
Youth
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“Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.”
Nature
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