I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAYThere is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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 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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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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.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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 believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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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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