Art Quote by Jan Tschichold

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

— Jan Tschichold

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

— Stanley Morison

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

Typography exists to honor content.

— Robert Bringhurst

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

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language…

— Neville Brody

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

— Beatrice Warde

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy -…

— Robert Bringhurst

“I have little interest in illustration, which lacks a kind of transcendental quality. It is too literal. I find typography more straightforward, conceptual, and…

— Timothy Samara

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself…

— Ellen Lupton

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

— Robert Bringhurst

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer