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Man Ray

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
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
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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
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
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Automobile Declare Horse
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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 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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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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