Karl Blossfeldt quotes

Karl Blossfeldt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“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

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“Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.”
-- Karl Blossfeldt

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“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

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“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
“I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.”
“People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.”

Source : Bruce Schneier (2000). “Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world”, Wiley
“While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.”
“Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...”

Source : Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97
“Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?”

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