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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 !

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
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 World Worst
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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 Point
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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
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.
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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
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
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

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