Herbert Bayer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
-- Herbert Bayer

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My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
-- Herbert Bayer

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It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force.
-- Herbert Bayer

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The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.
-- Herbert Bayer

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We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.
-- Herbert Bayer

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The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
His speech is a burning fire.
Slurring is the cursive of speech...

Herbert Bayer famous quotes

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