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An original is a creation motivated by desire.

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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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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 have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
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
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

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