My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAYIn 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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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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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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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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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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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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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