It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAYI would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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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 do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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