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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Picabia was reacting on anonymous journalist who commented that Picabia had based his composition on a diagram of an air-brake turbine, reproduced in the journal 'La Science et la Vie'

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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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