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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

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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
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
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
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
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
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
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Information Inspirational Myself Personal Prefer
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle 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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