A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAYTo create is divine, to reproduce is human.
More Man Ray Quotes
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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