"The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine,……" — Cheng Man-ch'ing

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• 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… — Barack Obama
• Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem,… — Sijie Dai
• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its… — Robert Bringhurst
• If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I… — Pablo Picasso
• When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my… — Cai Guo-Qiang
• That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and… — Joan Miro
• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy… — Steve Jobs
• I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism...… — Paul Rand
• In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese… — 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… — Alexandra Adornetto

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