List of Man Ray Quotes

L Photograph What L Do Not Wish To Paint And L Paint That Which L Cannot Photograph.

I Am An Economic Person; I Judge The Amount Of Work Involved With The Amount Of Worth Attained.

I Paint When I Cannot Photograph.

I Am Not Going To Be Dictated To By The Size Of The Camera. I Use Everything From An 8 X 10 To A 35-mm. But I Don't Use These Modern Cameras Which Break Down All The Time !

Thanks To My Effort In The Last 40 Years, There Has Been More Paper And Film Wasted.

I Have Never Painted A Recent Picture.

The Complicated Engines Manufactured By Men Demand, If One Really Wants To Use Them, Much Calm. Ever Since Our Love For Machines Replaced The Love We Used To Have For Our Fellow Man, Catastrophes Proceed To Increase.

In The Same Spirit, When The Automobile Arrived, There Were Those That Declared The Horse To Be The Most Perfect Form Of Locomotion.

Oh, Yes, I Was A Great Retoucher. A Retoucher Is An Esthetic Surgeon !

A Certain Amount Of Contempt For The Material Employed To Express An Idea Is Indispensable To The Purest Realization Of This Idea.

One Of The Satisfactions Of A Genius Is His Will-power And Obstinacy.

An Original Is A Creation Motivated By Desire.