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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

Man Ray

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

Assassination Criticism One Liner
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAY

Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
MAN RAY

Admire Craft Dreams Practice
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
MAN RAY

Automobile Declare Horse
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAY
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAY

Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
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.
MAN RAY

Camera Determination Photographer Picture
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction

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