Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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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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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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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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