I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAYOf 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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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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 am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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