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
Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
An original is a creation motivated by desire.
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
I have never painted a recent picture.
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted.
I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
I never knew what I was doing until I was done.
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.