There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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 believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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 am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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