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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Man Ray

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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 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
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
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 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
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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Believe Music Photography
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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Existence Imagination Myself Paint Photograph

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

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