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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 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
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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
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
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
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Curiosity Information Myself Nature Technique Willing
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
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.
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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
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

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