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I paint when I cannot photograph.

Man Ray

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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
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
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
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
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

I paint when I cannot photograph.

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