El Lissitzky Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.