Occupation: Artist Birth: December 5, 1891 Death: December 3, 1956
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 beau….
Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography..
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting..
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble puri….
Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. They do not understand new things..
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life..
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 w….
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 r….
We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing….
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situa….
Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop peo….
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..
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings w….
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time..
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age..
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes..