I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAYA 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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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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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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