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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

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
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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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Dreams Drive Imagination Myself Patient Photograph Unconscious
When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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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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Camera Determination Photographer Picture
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
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
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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Done Hustle One Liner
Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Art Brush Chemistry Light Myself Paint Pieces
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
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
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
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
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality

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