I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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