Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can…

— 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

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

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture 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…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the…

— 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…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to…

— 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…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

— 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…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Every period has its own optical focus.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can…

— 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…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy