"I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an……" — Paul Rand
"I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism."
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28 Quotes by Paul Rand
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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no…
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative…
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Design is everything. Everything!
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The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a…
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select…
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the…
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Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows,…
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Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or…
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If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it…
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Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is…
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More Asceticism Quotes
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with…
— Agnes Repplier
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up…
— Thomas Merton
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If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in…
— Florence Nightingale
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The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become…
— Thomas Merton
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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course,…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no…
— Rod Dreher
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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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