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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.

Man Ray

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAY

Effort Film Paper Waste
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
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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 would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAY

Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAY

Future One Liner Trick Truth
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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 World Worst
All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

Assassination Criticism One Liner
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 I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
MAN RAY

Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAY

Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society

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