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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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.
MAN RAYThe streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
MAN RAYI paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAYJust as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAYLipstick is the red badge of courage.
MAN RAYAn effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAYl photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAYIt has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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 RAYQuote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
MAN RAYYou don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAYIn the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
MAN RAYThere is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAYMy works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAYI would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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