The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.
Laszlo Moholy-NagyThe illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
Laszlo Moholy-NagyThe enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.
Laszlo Moholy-NagyThe 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-NagyEveryone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy