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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
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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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
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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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
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 World Worst
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
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
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
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
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society

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