Reality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAYIf 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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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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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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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 am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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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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