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

Man Ray

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
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
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAY

Done Hustle One Liner
I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Option Paint Photograph
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAY

Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
MAN RAY

Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
MAN RAY

Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
All critics should be assassinated.
MAN RAY

Assassination Criticism One Liner
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
MAN RAY

Automobile Declare Horse
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
MAN RAY

Desire Fabric One Liner Reality

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