Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAYThere is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
More Man Ray Quotes
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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.
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