"Wings are a constraint that makes it possible…" — Robert Bringhurst
"Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly."
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25 Quotes by Robert Bringhurst
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Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for…
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Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
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Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have…
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Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft…
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If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of…
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When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak…
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When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its…
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Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are…
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Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try…
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In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet…
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In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra…
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More Constraint Quotes
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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the…
— William J. Clinton
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint;…
— Emile Durkheim
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to…
— Seneca the Younger
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
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An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that…
— Henri Matisse
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
— Michelangelo
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An artist must not feel under any constraint.
— Henri Matisse
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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all…
— Michael Stean
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Creativity comes from constraint.
— Biz Stone
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