Destroying Quote by Jan Tschichold

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential…

— Virginia Postrel

Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is…

— Stanley Morison

“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their means, that…

— Aldous Huxley

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

— Ernest Hemingway

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and…

— George Steiner

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

— Piet Zwart

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will…

— Ambrose Bierce

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates

“For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

— Italo Calvino

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

— Mary Russell Mitford

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular…

— Alfred Kazin