The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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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 have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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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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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 am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Speaking 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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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
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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 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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