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
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
The future is a monotonous instrument
All beliefs are bald ideas.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Good taste is as tiring as good company.
Only useless things are indispensable.
Taste is tiring like good company.
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
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.