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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

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAY

Effort Film Paper Waste
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY

Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
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
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAY

Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAY

Myself Nature Photography Vision
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.
MAN RAY

Camera Determination Photographer Picture
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAY

Done Hustle One Liner
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAY

Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

Assassination Criticism One Liner
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY

Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

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.
MAN RAY

Automobile Declare Horse
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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.
MAN RAY

Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAY

Art Humor Joke Myself Success
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
MAN RAY

Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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

Camera Direction Leadership Time
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
MAN RAY

Fact Mindset Myself Quote
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction

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