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I paint when I cannot photograph.

Man Ray

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
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.
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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
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 have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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 !
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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst

I paint when I cannot photograph.

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