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.
MAN RAYThanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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