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If 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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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
Is 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.
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Art Fashion Need Old Photography
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
If 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 !
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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture

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