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
Only useless things are indispensable.
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.
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.
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Taste is tiring like good company.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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.