I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAYThanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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I 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.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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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.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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I 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 !
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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