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

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…

- Alexander Rodchenko

Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings w…

- Alexander Rodchenko

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…

- Alexander Rodchenko

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…

- Alexander Rodchenko

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

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

- Alexander Rodchenko

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…

- Alexander Rodchenko

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

- Alexander Rodchenko