My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYI 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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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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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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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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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