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

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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
~ Man Ray

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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
~ Man Ray

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It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
~ Man Ray

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To express what I feel I use the medium best suited to express that idea, which is also always the most economical one.
~ Man Ray

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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an original is motivated by necessity.
~ Man Ray

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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
~ Man Ray

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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Man Ray

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Unconcerned but not indifferent.
~ Man Ray

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

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