I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAYSpeaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.
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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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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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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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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 am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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