Inspirational Calligraphy Quotes
- Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper. – Kaoru Kakogawa
- Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing. – Dai Sadie, ‘Once on a Moonless Night’
- What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink. – John Olsen, Australian Artist.
- Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
- abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. Aberjhani, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry.
- Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become an art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living. – E. Davey, ‘Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
- Letters act as practical and useful signs, but also as pure and inner melody. – Wassily Kandinsky.
- Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles. – Shawn Martin, Shadowflesh.
- Calligraphies are our images, Maestro, images of our faith. – Mathias Étard, ‘Parle-leer de bastilles, de roes et elephants’.
- Calligraphy is a kind of music not for the ears, but for the eyes. – Lazursky.
- Calligraphy is the most intimate, private, and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice, it is unique with every person. – German Zapf.
- Modern calligraphy” is the folk-art class of script forms that is easy for someone to learn, compared with the more formal hands of calligraphy that take much time and effort to master. – Steve Husting.
- Modern calligraphy is a class of trendy scripts that are characterized by bounced and rounded lettering, which is closer to freestyle handwriting than historical calligraphy and its variations. – – Steve Husting.
- Do calligraphy which is more like you’re handwriting. Connect your letters in ways that no machine can do. This is the future of calligraphy. – Ina Salts.
- Always introduce a bit of imperfection, because calligraphy is made by the human hand, not a machine, and human imperfections will always be more appealing to humans than perfection. – Ina Salts.
- Bad calligraphy is making forms that are unsure, insecure, self-conscious, whereas good calligraphy unites the freedom of the hand with the mastery of tool and self in performance, whether letterforms be present or absent. – Steven Skaggs
- Calligraphy has always existed in that place of tension between what the letterform desires: to be completely principled, and what the hand desires: infinite freedom of gesture. – Steven Skaggs
- The furthering of calligraphy in our own time above all serves self-realization by developing man’s creative talents. Calligraphy frees emotions and abilities which are hidden in the depths of personality. It activates the power of the soul. – Karageorge Hoefer.
- Each letter in every script known to man holds an eternal power, an individual beauty in its vertical, horizontal, angular lines, in their continuity.” – Achyut Palov, ‘Indian Calligrapher’.
Famous Quotes in Calligraphy
- I never did calligraphy… But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It’s part of the syndrome of modernism… It’s part of that asceticism. – Paul Rand.
- Calligraphy is the ultimate synthesis of what I love: language, art, and human connection. – Joy Deneen.
- A written letter is like a bowl filled with certain content. The purer the content, the more delicate strings of the human soul it touches. – Provence, Russian Calligrapher.
- Perfection of handwriting needs proper education, regular exercises, and purity of the soul. – Yakut Mutasim, Turkish Calligrapher.
- For the largest part, ill handwriting in the world is caused by hurry. – Lewis Carroll.
- Calligraphy: disciplined freedom is the essence of it, as of any other just form of government. – Raymond F. Diboll.
- A friend of mine once mentioned something one of his teachers had told him: ‘Calligraphy is like the leaves of a tree. Every letter has the same basic shape and size, but each one is unique. – Christopher Calderhead.
- Calligraphy, is a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard. – Stefan Bolder.
- Calligraphy — the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand…. – Robert Brenthurst, ‘The Elements of Typographic Style, 1992’.
- You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting. – Pete Doherty
Handwriting Quotes
- “For the largest part ill handwriting in the world is caused by hurry.” – Lewis Carroll
- “A friend of mine once mentioned something one of his teachers had told him: ‘Calligraphy is like the leaves of a tree. Every letter has the same basic shape and size, but each one is unique.’” – Christopher Calderhead
- “Calligraphy, a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard.” – Stefan Bolder
- Handwriting And Writing Quotes
- Calligraphy is very related to writing on paper. Even though few are gifted with beautiful writing, some can always enhance it with practice. Hence, we relate handwriting with calligraphy in these hand lettering quotes.
- “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.” – Pete Doherty
- “A woman’s perfume talks more about her than her handwriting.” – Christian Dior
- “I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it’s done in handwriting.” – Nelson DeMille
- “Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.” – Jean Cocteau
- “Handwriting is a spiritual designing, even though it appears by means of a material instrument.”– Euclid
- “I don’t think I’ve ever seen your handwriting before. It’s an oddly personal thing, isn’t it?” – Ann Aguirre, ‘Aftermath’
- “Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.” -Vikram, “Kurukshetra”
- “We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.” – Craig D. Landsborough
- “Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.” – Plato
- “The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.” – John Adams
- “Handwriting causes thinking – the repetition of writing your goal every day will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.” – Bob Proctor
- “Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.” – Natalie Goldberg
- “Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.” – Ruth Ozeki
- “All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.” -Karl G. Maser
- “Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.” – Claude Fayette Brandon
- “Her handwriting was curious, small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?)” – Erich Segal
- “She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.” – Jeffrey Eugenides
- “The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.” – Ralph Hodgson
- “Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else–and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.” – J. Norman Collie
- “I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of imperfect education.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Handwriting is autobiography.” – Carrie Latte
- “That handwriting was a girl. I mean, you can tell. The enchanted cursive.” –Rachel Cohn
- “One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “There are five virtues: accuracy, literacy, a strong hand, industriousness, and the perfect writing utensils” – Mir-Ali Khoravi.
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