Quotes by Alexander Rodchenko - Page 1

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Cameras
Describing
Modern Life
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We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Eye
Perception
Vision
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Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Art
Age
Photography
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Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Beautiful
Damn
Nobody Knows
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Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Art
Photography
Rights
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Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Events
Naked
Photography
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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 / Artist
Blue
Three
Yellow
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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 / Artist
Men
Taken
Trying
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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 / Artist
People
Photography
World
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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 the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Different
Keys
Views
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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 of the object.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Art
Smile
Men
Order
Perspective
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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 will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Art
Photography
Taken
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Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Art
War
Beautiful
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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 purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Quality
Appreciate
Glasses
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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 it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Art
Photography
Struggle
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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 of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.
Alexander Rodchenko / Artist
Eye
Mean
Strong
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