You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAYI am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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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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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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