Man Ray Quotes

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

In the same way I accumulate objects, I also accumulate images, and I find them arranging themselves into categories, too. And some images insist on being painted; others don't.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.