Man Ray Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  Man Ray

  Art, Our Society, Members

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

• Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

  Man Ray

  Art, Mind, Doe

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

  Man Ray

  Art, Making Love, Progress

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

• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Determination

  Julien Levy exhibition catalog, April 1945.

• I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

  Man Ray

  Art, Successful, Accused

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

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  Man Ray

  Art, Needs, Justify

  "Self Portrait". Book by Man Ray, 1963.

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  Man Ray

  Art, Mastery, Genius

  Letter to his sister, as quoted in "Man Ray: American Artist" (1988) by Neil Baldwin, May 18, 1941.

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

  Man Ray

  Dream, Art, Collective Unconscious

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

• 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.

  Man Ray

  Photography, Art, Trying

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