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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.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself 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 have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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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.
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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
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

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