Alexander Rodchenko Quotes
- 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.…
- I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which…
- One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in…
- I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.
- We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
- 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…
- 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.
- The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble…