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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

Man Ray

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
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
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner

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