Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAYI believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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 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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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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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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