I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAYIf 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 paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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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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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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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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