Man Ray Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

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

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

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.

All critics should be assassinated.