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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

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

Economic Myself Person Work
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAY

Effort Film Paper Waste
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

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

Myself Paint Photograph
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAY

Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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 RAY

Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
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
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAY

Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY

Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAY

Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography

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