Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.
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 RayIf the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
Man RayEach 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.
Man Ray