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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Man Ray

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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
MAN RAY

Camera Direction Leadership Time
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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.
MAN RAY

Camera Determination Photographer Picture
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands State World Worst

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