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 RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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