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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Man Ray

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
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
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 paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
MAN RAY

Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress

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