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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

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
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
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
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination. I photograph the things I don’t want to paint, things that are already in existence.
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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph
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 believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
MAN RAY

Believe Music Photography
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
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 World Worst
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
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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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.
MAN RAY

Camera Determination Photographer Picture
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
MAN RAY

Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces

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