To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAYOf 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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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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 photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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