Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.
Man RayIf I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.
Man RayAn effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
Man RayI 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