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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.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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
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
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
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 !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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 streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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
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
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction

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

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