Man Ray Quotes

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

~ Man Ray

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

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

~ Man Ray

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.

~ Man Ray

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

~ Man Ray