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I paint when I cannot photograph.

Man Ray

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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
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
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
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

Assassination Criticism One Liner
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAY

Art Humor Joke Myself Success
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAY

Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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 paint when I cannot photograph.

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