I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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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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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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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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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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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