Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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