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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

Man Ray

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
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
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
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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
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
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

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