Picabia Quotes

Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

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

All the painters who appear in our museums are failures at painting; the only people ever talked about are failures; the world is divided into two categories of people: failures and those unknown.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.

Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth

Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.

My painting is a contest between life and sleep.

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

Paralysis is the first stage of wisdom.

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

The future is a monotonous instrument.

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots

Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles.

The tables are moved by spirit - paintings and other works of art are are locked away. And the soul inside becomes ever more inspired as the auction price goes up!

Success is a liar liars love success

Aramis = Peter Harratt (also Henri Lassot) Artus & Auguste = Henry and Alfred Newton Bishop = Abbé Robert Alesch (also René Martin) Bob = Raoul Le Boulicaut Carte = André Girard Célestin = Brian Stonehouse Christophe = Gilbert Turck Constantin = Jean de Vomécourt Fontcroise = Captain Henri Charles Giese Georges = Georges Bégué Gévolde = Serge Kapalski Gloria = Gabrielle Picabia Lucas = Pierre de Vomécourt (also Sylvain) Marie = Virginia Hall (also Germaine, Philomène, Nicolas, Diane, Diana, Marcelle, Brigitte, Isabelle, Camille, DFV, Artemis) Nicolas = Robert Boiteux (also known as Robert Burdett) Olive = Francis Basin Pépin = Dr Jean Rousset René = Victor Gerson (also Vic) Sophie = Odette Wilen Victoire = Mathilde Carré (or La Chatte)

But there were also men of far greater value who were drawn to Cubism, men whose language was paint or sculpture: among them Léger, Picabia, Delaunay, La Fresnaye, Le Fauconnier, Dufy for a while and Friesz, Lhote, Kisling, Herbin of the Bateau-Lavoir, Survage, Marcoussis, Diego Rivera, Mondrian, Archipenko, Brancusi, Lipchitz, and perhaps the most important of them all, the three brothers Jacques Villon, Duchamp-Villon, and Marcel Duchamp.