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Typography Quotes by Ed Benguiat
- To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.
- Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.
- I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.
- The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved.…
More Typography Quotes
- The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler
- Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of… — Claude Bernard
- Typography is what language looks like. — Ellen Lupton
- If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying... — Michael Bierut
- I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible. — Erik Spiekermann
- Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano
- The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis
- Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer
- Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography… — Emil Ruder
- Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
- Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By… — Ellen Lupton
- Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst