
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 420.
Suicide (1897)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 420.
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
In response on the motives of suicide bombers in a speech at Harvard University http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091100315.html 11 September 2006)
Attributed
"Originals Graphics Multiples" (1973) <!-- as quoted in Man Ray : American Artist (1988) by Neil Baldwin, p. 323 -->
Context: An original is a creation motivated by desire.
Any reproduction of an original is motivated by necessity.
The original is the result of an automatic process, the reproduction, of a mechanical process. In other words: Inspiration then information; each validates the other.
All other considerations are beyond the scope of these statements.
It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.