Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by El Lissitzky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian artist El Lissitzky.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, known as El Lissitzky, was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements, and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th-century graphic design.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.
The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
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
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
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.
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.
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.
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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