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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 !

Man Ray

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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society

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