Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Financially independent Picabia studied under Fernand Cormon and others at the École des Arts Decoratifs in the late 1890s. The same year he married Gabrielle Buffet. Francis Picabia: La peinture sans aura.

Francis Picabia (French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja]; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French painter poet and typographist associated with Cubism Abstract art Dada and Surrealism.