l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAYThanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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