-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.
- 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
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
