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An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Man Ray

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
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, 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
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

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