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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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
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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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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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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
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
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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 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
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
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 creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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.
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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
All critics should be assassinated.
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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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