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."

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."

All beliefs are bald ideas.

"If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt."

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""Pithecomorphes," in "Littérature," Second Series, no. 6 (Paris), 1 Nov 1922."
R:	""Jésus-Christ Rastaquoère," ch. 1, 1920."
A:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N:	""491," (Paris), 4 Mar 1949; repr. in "Yes No: Poems and Sayings," "Sayings," tr. by Rémy Hall, 1990."
K:	""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 Remy Hall, 1990)."