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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

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
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
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
MAN RAY

Art Humor Joke Myself Success
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY

Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
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

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