Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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