Moholy 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. 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

#3. Nut cases only succeed in multiple killings when
they can be confident their prospective victims are disarmed.

Vin Suprynowicz

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#9. Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

Faith Sullivan

#10. Every period has its own optical focus.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.

Mother Teresa

#16. When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J.J. Abrams

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#19. I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

Flip Wilson

#20. But of course it was precisely this destruction process of my beloved Steinway that I had wanted.

Thomas Bernhard

#21. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Eliot Ness

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#23. Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

John Darnielle

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#28. 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

#29. A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know.

Andrew Solomon

#30. You've been one busy worm!

M.L. LeGette

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

David Guterson

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

Martha Stewart