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.
MAN RAYIn the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
More Man Ray Quotes
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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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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 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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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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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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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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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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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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