To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in individual and common optical a…

- Raoul Hausmann

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experie…

- Raoul Hausmann

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instan…

- Raoul Hausmann

We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our wor…

- Raoul Hausmann