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“A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.”

- Man Ray

Source/Notes: Self Portrait (1963), p. 352

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“All critics should be assassinated.”

- Man Ray

Source/Notes: As quoted in Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations (1971) edited by Leonard Louis Levinson

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“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.”

- Man Ray

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“Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.”

- 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.”

- Man Ray

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

- Man Ray

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

- Man Ray

Source/Notes: Julien Levy exhibition catalog (April 1945)

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“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.”

- Man Ray

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

- Man Ray

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

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

- Man Ray

Source/Notes: Man Ray in America (1989 edition)

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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

Source/Notes: To Be Continued, Unnoticed (1948)

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“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.”

- Man Ray

Source/Notes: As quoted in Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology (1966) by Nathan Lyons, p. 80

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

- Man Ray

Source/Notes: As quoted in an interview Man Ray: Photographer published in Camera (1981) edited by Philippe Sers

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“unconcerned but not indifferent”

- Man Ray

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