There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAYReality is fabricated out of desire.
More Man Ray Quotes
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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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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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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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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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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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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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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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