Quote by Michael Lewis

“From Binet, the idea of measuring imagination with inkblots spread to a string of American intelligence-testing pioneers and educators—Dearborn, Sharp, Whipple, Kirkpatrick. It reached…

— Damion Searls

“I always get the strangest looks when I tell people that I enjoy purposely staining sheets of paper with many tiny blotches of permanent…

— Michael Kroft

“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”

— Henry Petroski

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

— Augustus William Hare

“Some people have the Midas touch, other’s dip their fingers in sticky, permanent black ink, Smudged. Unlucky.”

— Amy Matayo

“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”

— W.S. Gilbert

“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

“Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.”

— Colin Cotterill

“Sapiens often use visual marks such as a turban, a beard or a business suit to signal ‘you can trust me, I believe in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“After Gary had given the enlargements their sour baths, he raised the lights and discovered that both prints were webbed over with peculiar yellow…

— Jonathan Franzen

Ink is the transcript of thought.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

— Molly Crabapple