Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Blossfeldt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German photographer Karl Blossfeldt.

Last updated on October 10, 2024.

Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer and sculptor. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow. He believed that "the plant must be valued as a totally artistic and architectural structure."

German - Photographer | June 13, 1865 - December 9, 1932

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My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.

Karl Blossfeldt

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Karl Blossfeldt

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

Karl Blossfeldt

If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of.

Karl Blossfeldt

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Blossfeldt

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