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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

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
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
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
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
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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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
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
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
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
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
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY

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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