Moholy Nagy Photography Quotes & Sayings

Sorry?" He stood. "I'm really not good at saying sorry and sounding like I mean it, but I do mean it. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Band-aids don't fix bullet holes — Taylor Swift

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

It cannot be too plainly stated that it is quite unimportant whether photography produces 'art' or not. Its own basic laws, not the opinions of art critics, will provide the only valid measure of its future worth. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I would rather be dead than empty — Veronica Roth

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. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

When Jesus came in the form of a servant, he was not disguising who God is. He was revealing who God is. — John Ortberg

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

Annie took his hand. She kissed it and held it to the pulse point at her neck. She didn't speak. Words would have been an intrusion on what was happening between them. She could almost see the tiny ends of the soul-wire that had been severed in October, winding around each other, knotting, connecting in a way that she doubted would ever again come undone. That was how she wanted it. — Barbara Delinsky

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

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

This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need. — Penn Jillette

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

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

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

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