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> [Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/typographical-design-should-perform-optically-what-the-speaker/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/el-lissitzky/)

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## More by El Lissitzky

> [“Let us summarize these three points more concisely: (a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair. (b) “Objective” work,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/let-us-summarize-these-three-points-more-concisely-a-the-rejection-of/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/the-purpose-of-architecture-is-to-transmute-the-emptiness-into-space/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/art-can-no-longer-be-merely-a-mirror-it-must-act-as-the-organizer-of/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/el-lissitzky/)

> [Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/typographical-design-should-perform-optically-what-the-speaker/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/el-lissitzky/)

> [The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/the-room-is-there-for-the-human-being-not-the-human-being-for-the-room/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/el-lissitzky/)

> [The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/the-printed-page-transcends-space-and-time-the-printed-page-the/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/we-believe-that-the-elements-in-the-chemical-formula-of-our-creative/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/the-artist-constructs-a-new-symbol-with-his-brush-this-symbol-is-not/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/el-lissitzky/the-sun-as-the-expression-of-old-world-energy-is-torn-down-from-the/)

[El Lissitzky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/el-lissitzky/)

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