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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

Man Ray

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.
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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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.
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Art Fashion Need Old Photography
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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.
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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Automobile Declare Horse
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself 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.
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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish

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