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At the time when I was working on the exhibitions I was also very active as a book artist and in photo montage (for I could carry out those assignments when my sickness obliged me remain lying down).

— El Lissitsky Autobiography of the artist (1941)

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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 Lissitzky, El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967)

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, El Lissitzky : Life, Letters, Texts (1967)

Proun is the the Step-over from the art of painting to Architecture [original text in German:] (Umsteige-station von Malerei nach Architectur).

Let us summarize these three points more concisely

Rußland: Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (1929)

PROUN alters the conventional forms of the arts and leaves behind the image of the petty individualist, who locked himself in his office and hid seated before a drawing easel, starting one picture and finishing another.

Theses on the 'PROUN': from painting to architecture (1920)

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