Karl Blossfeldt Quotes

• 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

  World, Links, Plant

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

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  Noble, Pleasure, Source

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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.

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  Fashion, Lapses, Shapes

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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.

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  Giving, Enlargement, Form

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