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Man Ray

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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 World Worst
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
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
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
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

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