Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAYI 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 believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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 create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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