Albert Renger-Patzsch Quotes

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 photographic qualities.

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

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 you their own stories.

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

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

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 from the tree of knowledge.