Alexander Rodchenko Quotes

#1. The formula is simple: In any given situation, detach and ask, What do I need to do to take care of myself?

Melody Beattie

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#3. 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

#4. I don't understand your specific kind of crazy, but I do admire your commitment to it.

Darynda Jones

#5. As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

Kevin Plank

#6. The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Barack Obama

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#8. As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.

Craig Brown

#9. You know you are in love when you are willing to share your cash-machine number.

Elayne Boosler

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?

Charles Darwin

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#14. Life never seems to go the way you imagine it will.

Rene Webb

#15. 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

#16. Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

Alexander Rodchenko

#17. 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

#18. The imperfections in life are what make life perfect.

Gary Leblanc

#19. 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

#20. There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

Christopher Alexander

#21. You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

Charlie Munger

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#23. 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

#24. While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

Debashis Chatterjee

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

Alexander Rodchenko