To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAYI do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
More Man Ray Quotes
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
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If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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