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

Man Ray

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
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
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 !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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
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
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
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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.
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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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