All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAYAll critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAYI am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
MAN RAYIs 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.
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.
MAN RAYA certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYThe streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
MAN RAYIn the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
MAN RAYMy works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYYou don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAYI have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAYIf 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 !
MAN RAYNature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAYThe tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAYI would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAYAn original is a creation motivated by desire.
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