Quotes by Francis Picabia

• Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
• Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
• The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
• The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
• The essence of a man is found in his faults.
• Only useless things are indispensable.
• My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
• Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
• If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
• Good taste is as tiring as good company.
• God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
• Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
• Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
• Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
• A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.