Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
MAN RAYI do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
More Man Ray Quotes
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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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A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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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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In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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