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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Man Ray

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAY

Myself Nature Photography Vision
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
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
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
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

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

Economic Myself Person Work
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAY

Future One Liner Trick Truth
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAY

Art Humor Joke Myself Success
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
MAN RAY

Creation Desire Motivation Original
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

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