7 Quotes by El Lissitzky

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

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

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

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 room is there for the human being – not the human being for the room.

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 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.