There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost in…

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten …

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object,…

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell …

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at on…

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photograph…

- Albert Renger-Patzsch