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.
MAN RAYNature 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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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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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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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