55 Quotes by Man Ray

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

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.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.

If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

All critics should be assassinated.