To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAYI believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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.
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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 paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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