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Francis Picabia was a 19th-century French painter and writer. Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • God — Spiritual reflections on the divine, faith, and creation

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“Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.”
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“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”
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“If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.”
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“..giving plastic reality to inner states of the mind.”
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“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.”
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