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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Speaking 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.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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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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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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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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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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