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 !
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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 paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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