Lissitzky Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog

#3. We are more severe judges of our own acts ... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

Anais Nin

#4. 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

#5. Lila!" he said cheerfully. "So you aren't a figment of my brothers imagination after all.

V.E Schwab

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

El Lissitzky

#7. I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.

Neve Campbell

#8. 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.

El Lissitzky

#9. Press" Into Jesus to "Dial-Up" Joy, Gladness, & Happiness from the inside-out!

Kenneth Ellis

#10. 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.

El Lissitzky

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

El Lissitzky

#12. Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.

Steven Redhead

#13. Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.

Gustav Hasford

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

El Lissitzky

#15. I will be steel!
I will build a steel bridge over my need!
I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
But my future is a secret.
It is as shy as a mole.

Anne Sexton

#16. Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

Tom Hodgkinson

#17. 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.

El Lissitzky

#18. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

Douglas Coupland

#19. No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with ... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence
that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.

Anat R. Admati

#20. I was the first person to go to university from my family.

Ellie Goulding

#21. LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

Albert Hofmann

#22. This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

Steven Spielberg

#23. Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Vincent De Paul