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El Lissitzky Quotes

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.

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.

El Lissitzky
Photography, Art, Mirrors

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

El Lissitzky
Voice, Design, Gestures

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.

El Lissitzky
Art, People, World

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

El Lissitzky
Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass
El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

El Lissitzky
Men, Expression, Heaven

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