The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAYThe tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAYReality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAYLipstick is the red badge of courage.
MAN RAYIf I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
MAN RAYWhen I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAYI 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 RAYA 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 RAYA certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYQuote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
MAN RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAYIt has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAYAll critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAYI believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAYOh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAYJust as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY