Herbert Bayer Quotes & Sayings

We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects. — Herbert Bayer

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality. — Herbert Bayer

It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force. — Herbert Bayer

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. — Herbert Bayer