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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
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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Automobile Declare Horse
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.
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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
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
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
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
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
MAN RAY

Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography

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