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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Man Ray

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
MAN RAY

Economic Myself Person Work
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
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.
MAN RAY

Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

Assassination Criticism One Liner
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAY

Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAY

Art Humor Joke Myself Success
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAY

Future One Liner Trick Truth

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