The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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 never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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