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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.

Man Ray

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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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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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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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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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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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