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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.

Man Ray

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
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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Future One Liner Trick Truth
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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Camera Direction Leadership Time
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
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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Determination Dreams Myself Object Realization Record
I paint when I cannot photograph.
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Option Paint Photograph
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Myself Nature Photography Vision
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
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Admire Craft Dreams Practice
I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
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Economic Myself Person Work
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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Affair Artist Hands World Worst
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
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
I have never painted a recent picture.
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Myself Paint Photograph
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography

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