Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Herbert Bayer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American graphic designer Herbert Bayer.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Herbert Bayer was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.

American - Graphic Designer | April 5, 1900 - September 30, 1985

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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

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

Herbert Bayer

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

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

Herbert Bayer

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