Design Quote by El Lissitzky

Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.

— Helmut Schmid

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

— Robert Bringhurst

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov

“He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken…

— Rita Leganski

We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both…

— Michael Bierut

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

— Kenya Hara

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Speech is the mirror of action.

— Solon

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is…

— Robert Wilson

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise…

— Fred D'Aguiar

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

— David Mitchell