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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

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon
I have never painted a recent picture.
MAN RAY

Myself Paint Photograph
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
MAN RAY

Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
MAN RAY
Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
MAN RAY

Art Creation Human Mindset Nature See Work
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
MAN RAY

Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.
MAN RAY

Funny Job Photograph Profession Thief
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
MAN RAY

Done Hustle One Liner
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
MAN RAY

Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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 !
MAN RAY

Affair Artist Hands World Worst
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
MAN RAY

Existence Myself Paint Photograph Wish
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
MAN RAY

Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
MAN RAY
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
MAN RAY

Myself Nature Photography Vision
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
MAN RAY

Future One Liner Trick Truth

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

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