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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

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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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Affair Artist Hands World Worst
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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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 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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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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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