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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.

Man Ray

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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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
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
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY

Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAY
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

Genius Himself Power Satisfaction

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