An original is a creation motivated by desire.
MAN RAYI believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
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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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Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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