Calligraphy Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. — Barack Obama
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… — Sijie Dai
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the… — Pablo Picasso
The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan. — Cheng Man-ch'ing
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel… — Cai Guo-Qiang
That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf,… — Joan Miro
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to… — Steve Jobs
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
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the… — Vikram Seth
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. — Isabel Allende
But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a… — Alexandra Adornetto
I do shodo magic,â€ Dali said. â€œI curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I canâ€™t… — Ilona Andrews
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I… — Paulo Coelho
I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself… — John Green
Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol. — Weihui Zhou
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… — Aberjhani
Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of… — Laini Taylor
A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and… — Donnie Yen

Who Wrote These Calligraphy Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Calligraphy Quotes as follows: