Alexander Rodchenko Quotes
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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.
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We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
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I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over. Basic colors. Every plane is a plane and there is to be no representation.
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Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
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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.
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Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things.
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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.
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My goal is to photograph not a factory but the work itself from the most effective point of view.. ..in order to show the grandness of a machine, one should photograph not all of it but give a series of snapshots.
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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.
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Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.