I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAYIf 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 have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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