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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.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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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Fact Mindset Myself Quote
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
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism One Liner
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
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
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
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 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

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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