Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
MAN RAYI am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
MAN RAYA certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYAn effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAYA 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 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 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 !
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 RAYThanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAYTo create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAYTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAYI have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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 RAYI paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAYI paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
MAN RAYIt has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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