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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

Man Ray

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY

Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAY

Effort Film Paper Waste
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY

Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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.
MAN RAY

Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
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 !
MAN RAY

Camera Direction Leadership Time
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
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAY

Myself Nature Photography Vision
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAY

Done Hustle One Liner

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