Crafts Quote by Robert Bringhurst Download Open image “Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.” — Robert Bringhurst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Form Humans Language Typography Visuals
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 Copy Share Image
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, equally… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
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