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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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
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
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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 World Worst
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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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Economic Myself Person Work

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