A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYQuote 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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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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