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 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 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 RAYAn effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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 RAYSpeaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAYI would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAYOh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAYReality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAYI do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAYI believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAYI photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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 RAYTo me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAYThanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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