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An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
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 !
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Camera Direction Leadership Time
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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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
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
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
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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

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