Man Ray Quotes

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track. ~ Man Ray

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

All critics should be assassinated. ~ Man Ray

He was part of us and when he dies, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did. He was individual. He was an important man. ~ Ray Bradbury

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

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. ~ Man Ray

Man Ray ... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog. ~ William Wegman

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. ~ Man Ray

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection. ~ Man Ray

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer. ~ Man Ray

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

Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the Joyce
I left a note that said well I guess I got no choice
Scuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curb
Leaving with all I need but less than I deserve ~ Walter Becker

It wasn't going places. It was being between ... Mostly it was space. So much space. I liked the idea of nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing. ~ Ray Bradbury

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. ~ Man Ray

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. ~ Man Ray

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

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you. ~ Ray Bradbury

I shall remain on Mars and read a book. ~ Ray Bradbury

There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision. ~ Ray Bradbury

I paint when I cannot photograph. ~ Man Ray

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. ~ Man Ray

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door ... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ~ Ray Bradbury

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. ~ Man Ray

Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category. ~ Vince Aletti

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27). ~ Ray Comfort

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. ~ Man Ray

In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again. ~ William Wegman

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me ! ~ Man Ray

Lipstick is the red badge of courage. ~ 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

I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012). ~ Sofia Navarro

Death is a great tragedy ... a profound loss ... I don't accept it ... I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. ~ Ray Kurzweil

There was a damn silly bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. ~ Ray Bradbury

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

Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make. ~ Man Ray

No man is as big as his own idea. ~ Ray Bradbury

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

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon ! ~ Man Ray

I have never painted a recent picture. ~ Man Ray

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

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow. ~ Man Ray

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers. ~ Man Ray

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time. ~ William Wegman

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man. ~ Ray Rice

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 ! ~ Man Ray

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph ~ Man Ray

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

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

I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations. ~ Peter Hook

Photographer Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect given that the posing of Ms. Short's body appeared to mimic the Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs. ~ David McGowan

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea. ~ Man Ray

A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways. ~ Gregg Hurwitz

But a man cannot by writing a bill of divorce to his vice get rid of all trouble at once, and enjoy tranquillity by living apart. ~ Plutarch

Hey," Lula said to Ranger's man."You want to watch it? I just had my hair done. I don't need plaster in it. Next time just shoot a hole is this punk-ass loser, will you? ~ Janet Evanovich

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had. ~ Joe Walsh

and he urges the old man to remember the last moment he felt his being without its relation to beloved Amedea, his last moment of individual happiness or longing - ~ Jess Walter

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that. ~ Richard Madden

A great man is the man who does something for the first time. ~ Alexander Smith

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there""Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value ~ Jim Rohn

When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.' ~ Johnny Gimble

It seems to us that there are four great collective sociological assumptions in the modern world. By this we mean not only the Western world, but all the world that shares a modern technology and is structured into nations…. That man's aim in life is happiness, that man is naturally good, that history develops in endless progress, and that everything is matter.
The other great psychological reflection of social reality is the myth. The myth expresses the deep inclinations of a society. Without it, the masses would not cling to a certain civilization, or its process of development and crisis. It is a vigorous impulse, strongly colored, irrational, and charged with all of man's power to believe… In our society the two great fundamentals myths on which all other myths rest are Science and History. And based on them are the collective myths that are man's principal orientations: the myth of Work, the myth of Happiness (which is not the same thing as presupposition of happiness), the myth of the Nation, the myth of Youth, the myth of Hero.
Propaganda is forced to build on those presuppositions and to express these myths, for without them nobody would listen to it. And in so building it must always go in the same direction as society; it can only reinforce society. A propaganda that stresses virtue over happiness and presents man's future as one dominated by austerity and contemplation would have no audience at all. A propaganda that questions progress or work would arou ~ Jacques Ellul

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not. ~ Plato

Some people on bus seats shake at the shoulders,
Stoned Elvises trying to dance after the gig.

Some walk into the rain and look like they're smiling,
Running mascara writes sad bitter letters on their faces.

Some drive their cars into lay-bys or park edges
And cradle the steering-wheel looking like headless drivers.

Some sink their open mouths into feather pillows
And tremble on the bed like beached dolphins.

Some people are bent as question marks when they weep
And some are straight as exclamation marks.

Some are soaking in emotional dew when they wake,
Salt street maps etched into their faces.

Some find rooms and fall to the floor as if praying to Allah.
Noiseless
Faces contorted in that silent scream that seems like laughter.

Why is there not a tissue-giver? A man who looks for tears,
Who makes the finest silk tissues and offers them for free?

It seems to me that around each corner, beneath each stone,
Are humans quietly looking for a place to cry on their own. ~ Lemn Sissay

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Life is so groovy when your record is hot. ~ Ray Davies

A familiar story, Marya instructs herself - a woman yearning to be completed in a man, by way of a man. As if she hadn't a soul of her own. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance. ~ Aeschylus

MY HUSBAND, STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS
QUOTED THIS RECENTLY IN WANGARATTA AT A BOOK SIGNING WHEN ASKED ADVICE FOR SUCCESS.........
1. Marry Louise.
2. Do what she tells you.
3. Keep her happy! ~ Louise Dando-Collins

Lady Katsa, is it?"
"Yes, Lord Prince."
"I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky."
"Yes, Lord Prince."
"I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger."
She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince."
"Does it make it easier?"
"I don't understand you."
"To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes? ~ Kristin Cashore

To learn that a man can make foolish plays for no reason whatever was a valuable lesson. It cost me millions to learn that another dangerous enemy to a trader is his susceptibility to the urgings of a magnetic personality when plausibly expressed by a brilliant mind. It has always seemed to me, however, that I might have learned my lesson quite as well if the cost had been only one million. But Fate does not always let you fix the tuition fee. She delivers the educational wallop and presents her own bill, knowing you have to pay it, no matter what the amount may be. ~ Jesse Livermore

It reminded him of the Sound of Music. Myron liked the ole Julie Andrews musical well enough. who didn't? but he always found one song particularly dumb. One of the classics, actually. My Favorite Things. The song made no sense. Ask a zillion people to list their absolute favorite things, and how many of them are going to list doorbells for crying out loud.
You know what, Milly, I love doorbells. To hell with strolling on a quiet beach, or reading a great book, or making love or seeing a broadway musical. Doorbells, Milly, doorbells really punch my ticket. Sometimes I just run up to people's houses and press their doorbells and, well, I think i am man enough to admit I shutter. ~ Harlan Coben

But it was probably long before anyone thought of pottery that the river was first perceived as a metaphor of destiny, the "clan river" of eternity connecting the three worlds. The bear signaled--perhaps seemed even to oversee--the arrival of the salmon. The salmon were human food too, which made the first link in the man-bear-river-salmon system a tangible reality. We can only guess how the river's eternal flow, the upstream movement of the miraculous fish from the depths of a watery matrix toward the almost ethereal spring at the headwaters, or their fate in the stomach of the bear might have stimulated the concept of reincarnation. In time, the spiritual forces represented by the physical realities could be grappled with by a shaman, who would travel the river to the ancestral downstream and the immortal upstream in a trance instead of a boat. ~ Paul Shepard

A man does not try to find out what is inside.
He does not try to scratch the surface.
If he did he might find something much more beautiful than the shape of a nose or the color of an eye. ~ Hedy Lamarr

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world. ~ John Ruskin

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. ~ Herbert Newton Casson

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. ~ Joseph Barbera

Anderson Dawes," the pocked man said. "I'm the Ceres liaison for the Outer Planets Alliance. I think we can help each other. May I come in?" Miller ~ James S.A. Corey

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. ~ Ray Bradbury

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about. ~ John Muir

Under Protestantism, religion is left entirely to the control of the individual, who selects his own creed, or makes a creed to suit himself, devises his own worship and discipline and submits to no restraints but such as are self-imposed. When this stage is reached, disintegration of the religious spirit is imminent; for man is not sufficient unto himself, reason unaided cannot sustain faith, and Authority is required to preserve Christianity from degenerating into a congeries of fanatic sects and egotistical professions. Under Protestantism, the sect governs religion, rather than submitting to governance; the congregation bully their ministers and insist upon palatable sermons, flattering to their vanity; Protestantism cannot sustain popular Liberty because it is itself subject to popular control, and must follow in all things the popular will, passion, interest, prejudice, or caprice. ~ Russell Kirk

I have noticed that people usually have not
much difficulty in picturing to themselves what is meant by the shadow, even if they would have preferred instead a bit of Latin or Greek jargon that sounds more "scientific." But it costs them enormous difficulties to understand what the anima is. They accept her easily enough when she appears in novels or as a film star, but she is not understood at all when it comes to seeing the role she plays in their own lives, because she sums up
everything that a man can never get the better of and never finishes coping with. Therefore it remains in a perpetual state of emotionality which must not be touched. The degree of unconsciousness one meets with in this connection is, to put it mildly, astounding. Hence it is practically impossible
to get a man who is afraid of his own femininity to understand what is meant by the anima. ~ C.G. Jung

Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. ~ Emil Cioran

Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game. ~ Kevin Durant

If you want to find religion, then follow man ... If you want to find spirituality, then seek God. ~ Christine Upton

It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man
what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else. ~ Terry Goodkind

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Insull was a serious and driven young man. Born into a family of temperance crusaders, he spent his boyhood poring over books with titles like Lives of the Great Engineers and Self-Help. ~ Nicholas Carr

I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero. ~ Jake Epstein