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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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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 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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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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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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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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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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