Man Ray Quotes
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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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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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I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
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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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All critics should be assassinated.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
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Lipstick is the red badge of courage.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
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Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
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When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.
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Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.
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I paint when I cannot photograph.
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The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.
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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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Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
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Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.
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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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The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
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I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
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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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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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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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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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Reality is fabricated out of desire.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
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I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.
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Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.
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I have never painted a recent picture.
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