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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Man Ray

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY

Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
MAN RAY

Camera Direction Leadership Time
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
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.
MAN RAY

Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands World Worst

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