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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.

Man Ray

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
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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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
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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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
MAN RAY

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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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