Creative Quotations from Francis Picabia (1879-1953)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Francis Picabia
(1879-1953) born on Jan 22

French painter, illustrator, designer, editor. He was successively involved with the Cubist, Dadaist, and Surrealist movements.

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

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"L'Humour Poetique," in La Nef, no. 71 --72 (Paris, Dec. 1950/Jan. 1951; repr. in Yes No: Poems and Sayings, "Sayings," ed. by Rémy Hall, 1990).
R:	In "Ecrits," vol. 2, "1950-1953," ed. Olivier Revault d'Allones and Dominique Bouissou, 1978.
A:	"M. Paul Signac, M. Francis Picabia et Dada," in "Figaro," (Paris), 20 Jan. 1922.
N:	In "Ecrits," vol. 2, "1950-1953," ed. Olivier Revault d'Allones and Dominique Bouissou, 1978.
K:	"Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms," p. 46., 1950.