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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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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
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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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
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
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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