There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAYl photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAYJust as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAYYou don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAYI have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAYIf 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 !
MAN RAYI photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAYMy works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYLipstick is the red badge of courage.
MAN RAYTo create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAYI would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAYA certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYI paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAYOh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAYI paint when I cannot photograph.
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