25 quotes found
Painter and writer · French · 1879–1953
French painter and writer (1879–1953)
“Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.”
“God invented concubinage, satan marriage.”
“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”
“..giving plastic reality to inner states of the mind.”
“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”
“If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.”
“The aim of art is to get us to dream, just like music, for it expresses a mood projected onto the canvas, which arouses identical sensations in the viewer.”
“I do not consider myself a Cubist either because I have come to the conclusion that cubes are not always made for expressing the thought of the brain and of the feeling of the spirit.. .I capture a...”
“This visit to America.. ..has brought about a complete revolution in my methods of work.. ..prior to leaving Europe I was engrossed in presenting psychological studies through the medium-ship of fo...”
“Naturally, form has come to take precedence over color with me, though when I began painting color predominated. Slowly artistic evolution carried from color to form and while I still employ color,...”
“'Udnie – I see Again in Memory my Dear Udnie' is no more the portrait of a young girl than 'Edtaonisl' (counterpart of his work 'Udnie'] is the image of a prelate, as we ordinarily conceive of them...”
“Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty.”
“Splendid, it has done me enormous good to finally see and read something in Switzerland that isn't bullshit. All of it is very nice, it is really something; your manifesto expresses every philosoph...”
“Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots.”
“The Cubists want to cover Dada with snow; that may surprise you, but it is so, they want to empty the snow from their pipe to bury DaDa.Are you sure?Positively sure, the facts are revealed by grote...”
“FRANCIS PICABIAis an imbecile, an idiot, a pickpocket!!!1921BUTHe saved Arp from constipation!The first mechanical work was createdby madam Tzara the Day she putlittle Tristan into the world, howev...”
“So Picabia has invented nothing, he just copies. But of course, Picabia copies an engineer's sketch instead of copying apples. Copying apples is something everybody understands, copying a turbine i...”
“It is not a recognisable scene [his two paintings 'Dances at the spring', 1912 - Picabia painted the motion and the excitement of a peasant dance while he was on his honeymoon in the countryside of...”
“We are living in the age of the machine. Man made the machine in his own image. She has limbs which act; lungs which breathe; a heart which beats; a nervous system through which runs electricity. T...”
“We [ Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp ] found him [Picabia in 1919, in his hotel in Zürich] busy dissecting an alarm-clock.. .Ruthlessly he slashed away at his alarm-clock down to the spring, which he pu...”