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I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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
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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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
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
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
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph

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