Albert Renger-patzsch Quotes

#1. By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#2. In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#3. Let us ... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#4. Modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#5. Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#6. My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Think people really want to know what's out there?"
"Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck

Lizzy Ford

#8. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#9. To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

Frederick Lenz

#10. If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).

Wasif Ali Wasif

#11. I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#12. There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#13. Intuition is the silent knowledge of your soul.

Matthew Donnelly

#14. I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

Albert Renger-Patzsch