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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

Man Ray

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 State World Worst
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
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
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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 have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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 have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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Art Humor Joke Myself Success
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
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
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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
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
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 am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work

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