Man Ray
1890-1976
American Avant-Garde Painter, Sculptor, Photographer, Filmmaker and Inventor of Rayographs
Cause of Death: Old Age
Man Ray Interesting Facts:
Man Ray was born as Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia. He began to sign
his name as Man Ray in 1912.
Man Ray's best buddy was his friend, the French painter
Marcel Duchamp.
Man Ray Inspirational Art Quotations
One of the satisfactions of a
genius is his will-power and obstinacy. -- Man Ray
quote
All critics should be assassinated. -- Man Ray
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. -- Man Ray quote
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him. -- Man Ray quote
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 quote
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. -- Man Ray quote
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 quote
The Greatest Surrealists of All Time
Although Hieronymus Bosch was certainly not a member of the surrealist movement I am including him anyway. The man was centuries ahead of his time.
Max Ernst German, 1891-1976
Frida Kahlo Mexican, 1907-1954
Rene Magritte French 1898- 1967
Joan Miro Spanish, 1893-1983
Man Ray American 1890-1976
Salvador Dali Spanish, 1904-1989
Definition of Surrealism
SURREALISM, n. Pure psychic
automatism, by which it is
intended to express,
verbally, in writing, or by
other means, the real
process of thought.
Thought's dictation, in the
absence of all control
exercised by the reason and
outside all aesthetic or
moral preoccupations.
ENCYCL. Philos. Surrealism
rests in the belief in the
superior reality of certain
forms of association
neglected heretofore; in the
omnipotence of the dream and
in the disinterested play of
thought. It tends definitely
to do away with all other
psychic mechanisms and to
substitute itself for them
in the solution of the
principal problems of life.
-- André Breton (The
founder of the Surrealist
Movement) 1924
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