We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time,… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share
Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
