I paint when I cannot photograph.
MAN RAYJust as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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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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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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All critics should be assassinated.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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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An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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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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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 never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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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