Francis Picabia quotes

" The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. " # Failure # Gender # Unknown

" The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. " # Family

" The essence of a man is found in his faults. " # Faults

" Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.. " # God # Freedom # Power

" Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. " # Greatness # Freedom # Power

" Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. " # Indifference # Pleasure # Pain

" A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. " # Invention and Inventor # Bores and Boredom # Age and Aging

" Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. " # Knowledge # Mistakes # Youth

" A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. " # Liberty # Freedom # Spirit and Spirituality

" God invented concubinage, Satan marriage. " # Marriage # God # Devil