Man Ray Quotes

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• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
• 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…
• There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
• The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
• Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
• I paint when I cannot photograph.
• The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
• Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
• I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.
• Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
• All critics should be assassinated.
• 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.…
• 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…
• Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
• Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
• 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…
• To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
• 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…
• You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

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