To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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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 have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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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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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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 photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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