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

Man Ray

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See 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 believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music 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
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 never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
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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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste

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