Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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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 an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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 have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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 paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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