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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man Ray

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
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
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
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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Existence Imagination 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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAY

Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAY

Done Hustle One Liner
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
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
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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