In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
MAN RAYIt has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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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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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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