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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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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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 paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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