Dreams Quote by Man Ray

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…

— Man Ray

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

— Man Ray

I paint when I cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

— Frida Kahlo

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

— Leonor Fini

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

— El Greco

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through…

— Frida Kahlo

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

— Man Ray

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the…

— Gerhard Richter

If I painted a picture for you,& you say there's no paint!!You officially lost your imagination

— Manotti Street

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

— John Dyer