I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
MAN RAYAn original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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