My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYMy works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYI have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAYSpeaking 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.
MAN RAYIs 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.
MAN RAYI paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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.
MAN RAYI paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAYWhen I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAYI would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAYOf 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.
MAN RAYNature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAYIf 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 !
MAN RAYI photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAYI never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAYThe tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAYA 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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