Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

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 beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed.

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

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

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

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

Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.