l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAYNature 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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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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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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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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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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