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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Man Ray

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAY

Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
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
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
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
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.
MAN RAY

Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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 Point
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
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
MAN RAY

Admire Craft Dreams Practice
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAY

Future One Liner Trick Truth
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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 an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work

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