A Peek Into Artist's Studios

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QUOTES

there is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception
-James thurber

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—

Rainer Maria Rilke 

QUOTES FROM CALLIGRAPHERS

Alf Ebsen
- I have no trouble writing legible, if someone is paying for it

Alfred Fairbanks 
-Writing is performed by movements, it is a dance of the pen

Donald Jackson 
- Cultivate your madness

-The difference between calligraphy and handwriting is that calligraphy is
the shapes that are the art form not he words being written

- Letters and words are merely the starting point for exploitation in space

Friedrich Poppl 
- Only in the contrast of black to white does form remain incorruptible

Gemma Black 
- ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS TUVWXYZ
Twenty six letters each with individual character and purpose

Gottfried Potts 
- Learning to write is the end result of many corrected mistakes

- Life is too short to use cheap paper

Hermann Zapf
- All the letters are waiting for you in the bottle of ink. All you have to
do is pull them out

John Stevens 
- Calligraphy is another human endeavour where something wonderful exists.
It is an expression of individuality

Kargeorg Hoefer
- Calligraphy is an expression of joy and surprise. 

Calligraphy builds a bridge from one human being to another,
from country to country

Larry Brady 
- The making of letters in any way, whether calligraphic, hand lettered,
using a computer or whatever, is the same to me,
as long as I can make them beautiful

Michael Clark 
- Be the Pen! 

Michael Hughey 
- It is pleasurable to see words written beautifully as it is to hear them
spoken beautifully

Paul Standard 
- Geometry can produce legible letters, but art alone makes them
beautiful. Art begins where geometry end,
and imparts to letters a character transcending mere measurement

Peter Thornton 
- Computers - they're not wet enough

- Don't guess what you're doing and hope it will happen. KNOW where you're
going

- The perfect letter is at the bottom of the bottle

Rudolf Koch 
- Lettering is the purest and greatest pleasure and on countless
occasions in my life it has been to me
what a song os to a singer, painting to a painter, cheer to the joyous,
and a sigh to the afflicted.
To me, it has been the happiest and most perfect expression of my life

- Letters are decoration enough in themselves, and when done with a
correct understanding,
they are the most beautiful and the most decorative kind of ornament