In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression… — 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 develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928) — 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… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
