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

Man Ray

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
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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Camera Direction Leadership Time
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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
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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography
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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Artistic Greatness Myself Nude Reason Subject Talk
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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Effort Film Paper Waste
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
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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Affair Artist Hands State World Worst
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
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
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material

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