El Lissitzky famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.
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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.
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We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.
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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.
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Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
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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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The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
-- El Lissitzky
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
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Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
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I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ***** with a bull fiddle.
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