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My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

Man Ray

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
MAN RAY

Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
MAN RAY
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
MAN RAY

Effort Film Paper Waste
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
MAN RAY

Art Love Progress
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
MAN RAY

Camera Determination Photographer Picture
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAY

Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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 !
MAN RAY

Camera Direction Leadership Time
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 do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAY

Myself Nature Photography Vision

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