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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.

Man Ray

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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.
MAN RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Automobile Declare Horse

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