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Language Quotes by Robert Bringhurst
- Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
- Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do…
- Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the…
- In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read,…
- Stories are the reproductive organs of language.
- If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain -…
- Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
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