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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

Man Ray

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
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
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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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
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
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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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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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