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A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

Man Ray

I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection 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 Point
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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Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
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
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
MAN RAY

Doctor Greatness Surgeon
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 World Worst
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
MAN RAY
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
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
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Harm Members Ourselves Paint Society
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph

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