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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Man Ray

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
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
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
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
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
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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.
MAN RAY

Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
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
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
I 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 RAY

Camera Direction Leadership Time
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

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