Lissitzky Art Quotes & Sayings

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. — Jane Pauley

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren

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

Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long? — Ashley Graham

Let us summarize these three points more concisely:

(a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair.
(b) "Objective" work, undertaken with the silent hope that the end product will nevertheless eventually be regarded as a work of art.
(c) Consciously goal-directed work in architecture, which will have a concise artistic effect on the basis of well-preparated objective-scientific criteria.

Such an architecture will actively raise the general standard of living. This represents the dialectic of our development process, which purports to arrive at the affirmative by negation - a process similar to melting down old iron and forging it into new steel. — El Lissitzky

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. — Michael Foot

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing. — Jaggi Vasudev

Sometimes I can feel it, the way we are
pouring slowly toward a curve and around it
through something dark and soft, and we are bound to
each other. — Sharon Olds

I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press. — Jack Falahee

We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it. — John Cleese

I keep meeting all the right people
At all the wrong times. — Shel Silverstein

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