A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYI have never painted a recent picture.
More Man Ray Quotes
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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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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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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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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