El Lissitzky quotes
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“The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.”
-- El LissitzkySource : El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”
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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.”
-- El LissitzkySource : El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”
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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 LissitzkySource : Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, Patricia Railing (2000). “For the Voice”, The MIT Press
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Source : "Aaron Sorkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.
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“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”
Source : Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Poems of Cowley”, p.113
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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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“I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.”
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