Body Quote by Umberto Eco

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and…

— Carl Jung

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin…

— Beatrice Warde

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning…

— Ruth Ozeki

The object of art is to give life shape.

— Anonymous

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the…

— Pablo Picasso

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

— Anonymous

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

— William Faulkner

Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.

— Jacob Weisberg

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter…

— Sol LeWitt

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind…

— Martin Puryear

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The…

— Jaron Lanier

Art is a self-replicating force.

— Jerry Saltz