A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Francis PicabiaNature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
Francis PicabiaNew York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
Francis PicabiaYou are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.
Francis PicabiaYouth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
Francis PicabiaDada 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
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