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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an original is motivated be necessity. . . It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Source: Originals Graphic Multiples (published in Objets de Mon Affection, 1983; repr. in Neil Baldwin, Man Ray, ch. 24, 1988).
-- 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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