Renger Quotes & Sayings

The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step. — Khaled Mashal

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star. — Glenn Close

I belong to NO ONE. But my heart belongs to you — Sarah J. Maas

Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?"
"Much better. And yes, I do. I had to memorize the planets when I was in third grade, and it was one of them, and I don't like having to relearn things. — Claire LaZebnik

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement — Albert Renger-Patzsch

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world. — Sarah Dessen

Let us ... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression. — Albert Renger-Patzsch

Modern life is no longer thinkable without photography. — Albert Renger-Patzsch