The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
MAN RAYIs 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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Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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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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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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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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I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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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.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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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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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 creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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.
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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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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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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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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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