I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAYThe tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
More Man Ray Quotes
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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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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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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