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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Man Ray

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
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
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Automobile Declare Horse
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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
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 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
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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 Point
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work

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