A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
MAN RAYl photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAYPersonally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAYYou don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAYLipstick is the red badge of courage.
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 have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAYQuote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
MAN RAYTo create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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 RAYAn effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAYI am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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 paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAYTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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