Reality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAYA 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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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