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.
MAN RAYI do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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