Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Professions : Painter Born : June 20, 1895 Died : November 24, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 25 quotes by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ignorant cameras use Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy color attitude thinking 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 salvation photography enemy Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy design attitude thinking 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 design color space 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 balance design organization 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 technology reality past The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy vision light organization 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 photography unique real The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy function privilege space Every period has its own optical focus. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy focus periods 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 light expression lying The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy manipulation light photography A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy space dwelling home 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 photography today world 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 magic space photography 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 used photography art 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 photography expression self Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy patterns vision association The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy invention photography art Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
