Picabia, Francis " NO BECAUSE..." Many people answer with " Yes, but..." With Francis it was always: " No because..."- the incessant discovery of each instant, a multifaceted explosion which cut short any argumentation. Francis also had the gift of total forgetting which enabled him to launch into new paintings without being influenced by the memory of preceding ones. An unceasingly renewed freshness makes him " more than a painter." Marcel Duchamp. From The Writings of Marcel Duchamp. Edited by Michel Sanouillet and Elmer Peterson.