I have never painted a recent picture.
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, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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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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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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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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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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