I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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 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 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 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 RAYl photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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 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 RAYTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAYThere is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAYWhen I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAYI paint when I cannot photograph.
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 RAYAn effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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.
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