Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Quotes

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

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

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.

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Every period has its own optical focus.

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.

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

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

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative 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.

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.

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.

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.