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An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Man Ray

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 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
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
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
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
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
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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