There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAYI 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.
More Man Ray Quotes
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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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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