Reality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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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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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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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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