One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAYThere is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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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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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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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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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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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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