Quotes by Man Ray

Man Ray

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

Certain

Ideas

Realization

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Art

Justify

Needs

All critics should be assassinated.

Critics

Should

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Creation

Desire

Wise

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.

Creation

Creativity

Desire

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.

Criticism

Laughter

Limits

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

Photograph

Vision

I have never painted a recent picture.

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.

Doe

Liberty

Real

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

Done

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Life

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Making Love

Mastery

Matter

Mind

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Paint

Paper

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

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Real

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Quotes by Man Ray

Man Ray

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

All critics should be assassinated.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

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.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

I have never painted a recent picture.

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.

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

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