It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
MAN RAYOne of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAYTo create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAYJust as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAYOh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAYI paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAYOf 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.
MAN RAYI photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAYIs 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.
MAN RAYA creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAYWhen I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAYIf I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
MAN RAYI do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAYNature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAYIn 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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