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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.

Man Ray

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
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 !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
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.
MAN RAY

Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
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 RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAY

Done Hustle One Liner
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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 World Worst

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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