1. 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”.”
2. “Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.”
3. “We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”
4. “Revolution in the photographic field consists in photographing in such a way that photography will have enough strength not just to rival painting, but also to point out to everyone a new and modern way of discovering the world of science, of technology and everyday life..”
5. “Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the the art of our age.”
6. “I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed : this is the end of the painting.”
7. “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 out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.”
8. 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.”
9. “Photography has all the right, and merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.”
10. “Damn it, nobody knows what is beautiful and what is not. they do not understand new things.”
