Rodchenko Photography Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The Academy of the Sword (1630) by the Flemish master Gerard Thibault d

Cary Elwes

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#4. But when he's cut, I bleed.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call.

Hilda Doolittle

#6. Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?

Leonard Sweet

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#8. If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Cecelia Ahern

#9. My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Vivien Leigh

#10. Before she landed, Ms Clinton publicly downplayed the importance of human rights. At a press conference ahead of leaving, she beamingly implored the Chinese government to keep buying US debt, like a travelling saleswoman hawking a bill of goods.

Richard McGregor

#11. The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Rebecca West

#12. Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.

Robert Fulghum

#13. 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

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#15. ... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Louisa May Alcott