An original is a creation motivated by desire.
MAN RAYAn original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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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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A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
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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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