Inspirational Quote by Man Ray

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

— Chuck Close

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

— 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

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

— Damian Loeb

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

— Joyce Cary

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

— Donald O'Connor

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

— Man Ray

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

— John Dyer

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

— Frida Kahlo

I paint paintings of people.

— Amy Sherald

I did painting before I did photography.

— David Bailey