Karl Blossfeldt Professions : Photographer Born : June 13, 1865 Died : December 9, 1932 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Karl Blossfeldt Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. Karl Blossfeldt pleasure source noble If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of. Karl Blossfeldt enlargement form giving The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. Karl Blossfeldt lapses fashion shapes My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world. Karl Blossfeldt plant links world Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors
