A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis Picabia

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Francis Picabia

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Francis Picabia

Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Francis Picabia

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Francis Picabia

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
Francis Picabia

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia

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

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

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.
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 family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Francis Picabia