The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAYReality is fabricated out of desire.
More Man Ray Quotes
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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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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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