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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

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 !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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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Automobile Declare Horse
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
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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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing

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