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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

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
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
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Amount Employment Himself Ideas Material
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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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
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
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
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Creation Desire Motivation Original
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
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Creation Divine Human Reproduction
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Genius Himself Power Satisfaction
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 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
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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Desire Fabric One Liner Reality
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
All critics should be assassinated.
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Assassination Criticism 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

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