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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Source: Interview in Cam?ra (Paris; repr. in Man Ray: Photographer, ed. by Philippe Sers, 1981).
-- Man Ray, (Aug 27 1890-1976), US painter, sculptor, photographer; He is remembered as the father of Surrealism and for his rayograph photography technique

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