I have never painted a recent picture.
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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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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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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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