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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.

— Francis Picabia

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For you to love something, you must have seen and heard it for a long time, you idiots.

Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty.

..giving plastic reality to inner states of the mind.

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.

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

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