I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAYI have never painted a recent picture.
More Man Ray Quotes
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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