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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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
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 do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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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Affair Artist Hands World Worst
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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
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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Automobile Declare Horse
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
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, 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
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography

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