Francis Picabia Quotes

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

We see death constantly on film.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

I am dying, but the state remains.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

I was a wrestling fan long enough, and once in a while, I would get bored. I'd be on board with a superstar and love what he'd do. Then eventually, I would get bored with him. I don't want people to think that way of me, so I'm doing everything I can to make sure it doesn't happen.

With a gimmick, there isn't much substance. If you play to the crowd too much, it can go bad.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

First I got a yo-yo. I got good and then I got bored. Next I got one of those wooden paddles with a rubber ball at the end of an elastic band. I got good and then I got bored. Then I tried bubbles. I got good but I never got bored.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.