55 Quotes by Man Ray

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

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 !

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.