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.
MAN RAYIn the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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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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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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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 paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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