Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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 am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don’t use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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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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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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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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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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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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