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Francis Picabia
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“..giving plastic reality to inner states of the mind.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: two short quotes of Picabia, in 'A Paris painter', by Hapgood, published in 'The Globe and Commercial Advertiser', 20 Febr. 1913, p. 8
“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 all these impressions [the visual sensations, Picabia sensed in the modern city] without any hurry to transfer to the canvas. I let them rest in my brain and then, when I'm visited by the spirit of creation, I improvise my paintings just as a musician improvises his music.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'How I see New York', in 'The New York American', New York 30 March 1913, p. 11
“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 forms which I created. Almost immediately upon coming to America it flashed on me that the genius of the modern world is in machinery and that through machinery art ought to find a most vivid expression.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in the interview 'French Artists Spur on an American Art', in 'New York Tribune', Sunday 24 October 1915; as quoted by William A. Camfield, in Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton 1979, p. 77
“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, of course, it is the drawing which assumes the place of first importance in my pictures.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Picabia, in an interview in an American newspaper, 1915; as quoted by William A. Camfield, in Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, p.77
“'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. They are [both] memories of America, evocations of over there which, subtly set down like musical chords, become representative of an idea, a nostalgia, a fleeting impression.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'Ecrits: vol. 1', 1913 - 1920, Picabia, Belfond, Paris, p. 26
“Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in Picabia's letter to Tristan Tzara, Summer 1919; as cited in TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea, MIT Press, 12 Sep 2014, p. 151
“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 philosophy seeking truth, when there is no truth, only convention.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Tristan Tzara, Nov. 1919, (after having received a copy of 'Manifesto Dada 3.', written by Tzara); as quoted in: TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea, MIT Pres…
“Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sign for a Dada festival (March 1920)
“FRANCIS PICABIA is an imbecile, an idiot, a pickpocket!!! 1921 BUT He saved Arp from constipation! The first mechanical work was created by madam Tzara the Day she put little Tristan into the world, however she didn't know it funny girl Francis Picabia is an imbecilic Spanish professor who has never been dada FRANCIS PICABIA IS NOTHING FRANCIS PICABIS likes the morality of idiots Arp's binocle is Tristan’s testicle FRANCIS PICABIS IS NOTHING!!!!!!!!!! But Arp was Dada before Dada.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Picabia in his 'Manifesto, 1921'; as cited in Manifesto: A Century of Isms, ed. Mary Ann Caws, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, p 319
“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 is stupid”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in 'L'oeil cacodylate', Comoedia, 23 November 1921, p. 2
“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 grotesque mouths. They think that Dada can prevent them from practicing this odious trade: Selling art expensively. Art costs more than sausages, more than women, more than everything. Art is visible like God (see Saint-Sulpice). Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles. The table turns thanks to spirit; the paintings and other works of arts are like strong-box tables, the spirit is inside and becomes more and more inspired according to the auction prices. Farce, farce, farce, farce, farce, my dear friends.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 'DADA manifesto 1920'; as quoted in Manifesto: A Century of Isms, ed. Mary Ann Caws, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, nr. 9.16 Francis Picabia, p 318
“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 Italy; one version is lost]. There is no dancer, no spring, no light, no perspective, nothing other than the visible clue of the sentiments I am trying to express.. .I would draw your attention to a song of colours, which will bring out for others the joyful sensations and feelings inspired in me on those summer days when I found myself somewhere in the country near the Italian border, where there was a spring in a wonderful garden. A photograph of that spring and that garden would in now way look like my painting 'Dance at a spring' I was shown for the first time at the w:Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1912.”
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 200