One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAYI 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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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 never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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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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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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