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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

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
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
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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Art Love Progress
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 State World Worst
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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.
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Art Fashion Need Old Photography Point
Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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Courage Instagram Captions Makeup One Liner
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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 would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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Choice Dreams Ideas Myself Photography
My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.
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Design Inspirational Myself Reflection Work
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Doctor Greatness Surgeon

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