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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Man Ray

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY

Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
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
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
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
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
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
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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 tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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.
MAN RAY

Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph

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