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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
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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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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
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
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
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
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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