El Lissitzky Quotes

• Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

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  Voice, Design, Gestures

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• The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

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  Art, People, World

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• Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

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  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

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  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

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  Book, Space, Pages

  Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, Patricia Railing (2000). “For the Voice”, The MIT Press

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• We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

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  Art, Believe, Creative

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

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  Space, Unity, Mind

  "El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts". Book edited by Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers, 1968.

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• The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

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  Men, Expression, Heaven

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