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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

Man Ray

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.
MAN RAY

Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAY

Effort Film Paper Waste
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
MAN RAY

Economic Myself Person Work
If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
MAN RAY

Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
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.
MAN RAY

Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAY

Art Humor Joke Myself Success
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
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.
MAN RAY

Camera Determination Photographer Picture
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
MAN RAY

Automobile Declare Horse

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