Herbert Bayer Quotes

• 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

  Photography, Reality, Design

  Herbert Bayer, Beaumont Newhall (1977). “Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition”

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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

  Artist, Integration, Contemporary

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

  Herbert Bayer

  Reality, Imitation, Indirect

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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

  Photography, Mean, Ideas

  Herbert Bayer, Beaumont Newhall (1977). “Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition”

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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

  Impact, Creative, Quality

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