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

- El Lissitzky

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

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

- El Lissitzky

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…

- El Lissitzky

The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, alread…

- El Lissitzky

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

- El Lissitzky

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 comprehen…

- 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.

- El Lissitzky