Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Raywas an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth27 August 1890
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Reality is fabricated out of desire.
If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !
Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.