Man Ray Quotes

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• I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

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  Done

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• I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

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  Dream, Ideas, Photograph

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• My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

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  Reflection, Inspire, Annoying

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• 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 the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

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  Cameras, Doe, Needs

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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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  Track, Saws, Sides

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• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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  Photography, Inspiration, Technique

  "Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons (p. 80), 1966.

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• Reality is fabricated out of desire.

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  Life, Reality, Desire

  Man Ray, Janus (1980). “Man Ray, the photographic image”, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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• I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

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  Vision, Photograph

  "Prophet of the Avant-Garde". www.pbs.org. September 17, 2005.

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• To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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  Divine, Humans

  Man Ray (1973). “Opera Grafica”

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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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  Art, Mind, Doe

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• You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

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  Typewriters, Use, Asks

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

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  Dream, Art, Collective Unconscious

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.

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• The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

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  Dreamer, Craftsman, Admirable

  Man Ray, J. Paul Getty Museum (1998). “Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.8, Getty Publications

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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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  Laughter, Criticism, Limits

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

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  Photography, Inspiration, Information

  "Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 80, 1966.

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• The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Tricks

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• I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

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  Photography, Believe, Inspiration

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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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  Art, Our Society, Members

  Curtis L. Carter, Man Ray, Francis M. Naumann (1989). “Man Ray in America”

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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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  Photography, Wish, Paint

  As quoted in an interview "Man Ray: Photographer" published in Camera, edited by Philippe Sers, 1981.

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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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  Art, Successful, Accused

  "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers, Camera Magazine, 1981.

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• Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

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  Red, Badges, Lipstick

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• There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

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  Art, Making Love, Progress

  "To Be Continued, Unnoticed" by Man Ray, 1948.

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• All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

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  Country, Hurt, People

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• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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  Creativity, Desire, Creation

  Man Ray (1973). “Opera grafica”

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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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  Real, Liberty, Doe

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