Photography Quotes by Alexander Rodchenko

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

— Alexander Rodchenko

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

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

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

— Alexander Rodchenko

We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.

— Alexander Rodchenko

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

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

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

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

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

— Alexander Rodchenko

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

— Alexander Rodchenko

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

— Alexander Rodchenko