Rodchenko Quotes

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#2. 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

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#4. 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

#5. People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

Frederick Lenz

#6. I had fired 9-millimeters before and didn't like them. they weren't as accurate as my .38 special. they weren't as safe, and they could jam. i had never been one to substitute quantity for quality, and there was no substitution for being informed and practiced

Patricia Cornwell

#7. They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and yet the days seemed all too short.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. 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

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#10. It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Francois Fenelon

#11. I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. 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

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#14. 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

#15. I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

Anais Nin

#16. 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

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

Alexander Rodchenko

#18. 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

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

Alexander Rodchenko