Alexander Rodchenko Quotes

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

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.

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

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

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

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.

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

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)