I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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 never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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