All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAYThanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
More Man Ray Quotes
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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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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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A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
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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 paint when I cannot photograph.
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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 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 have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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