The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy More Quotes by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy More Quotes From 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 ignorantcamerasuse 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 colorattitudethinking 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 salvationphotographyenemy Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy designattitudethinking 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 designcolorspace 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 balancedesignorganization 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 technologyrealitypast The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy visionlightorganization 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 photographyuniquereal The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy functionprivilegespace Every period has its own optical focus. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy focusperiods 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 lightexpressionlying A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy spacedwellinghome 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 photographytodayworld 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 magicspacephotography 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 usedphotographyart 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 photographyexpressionself 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 patternsvisionassociation The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy inventionphotographyart 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 photographykeysreal
