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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

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAY
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.
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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAY

Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
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

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