Laszlo Moholy-nagy Quotes

#1. I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#2. The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

Billy Corgan

#3. The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.

Donald Miller

#4. The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence ... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#5. I'm having a wonderful time in training. It's so funny because you go through ups and you go through downs. People have to realize that my career started on a down. I got ripped off a Gold Medal at the Olympics but it didn't stop me and it made me a better person.

Roy Jones Jr.

#6. The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#7. I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#8. It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

Jesse Jackson

#9. Every period has its own optical focus.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#10. In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#11. Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Elmore Leonard

#12. Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#13. The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#14. The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph ...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#15. The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding ...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#16. The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#17. Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

Nelson A. Miles

#18. The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#19. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Dale Carnegie

#20. The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#21. There is no danger is letting people have their say ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#22. Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me and by my father. But, most of all, by Shazi. With her, he is as fiercely loved as he loves.

Renee Ahdieh

#23. Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#24. We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched ... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#25. The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#26. Design ... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#27. It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#28. Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

Joseph Story

#29. My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#30. The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#31. In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#32. The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#33. Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality

Sunday Adelaja

#34. A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#35. When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy