"The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence."

“The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.”
August Macke

“I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.”
August Macke

Source : August Sander (1996). “August Sander: "In photography there are no unexplained shadows!" : an exhibition organised by the August Sander Archive, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse, Cologne, and shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London”, Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

“I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.”
August Macke

Source : "August Sander".

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
August Macke

“Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age”
August Macke

Source : August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”