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Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Man Ray

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
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.
MAN RAY

Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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 RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY

Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
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 RAY

Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAY

Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
MAN RAY

Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice

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