It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAYIs 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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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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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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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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