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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Man Ray

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
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
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
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 World Worst
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
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
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
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
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
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
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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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