Accents Quote by Vera Wang

“Embossed letters represent the topography of typography.”

— Jarod Kintz

I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and…

— Christopher Plummer

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images…

— Anonymous

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

We have epexmlas of pre-historic art, but they are rare, and the context of their production and use is not very clear, so we…

— Youngboyvel

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English’s time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft…

— John McWhorter

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup.

— Anonymous

“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the…

— Rex Alan Smith

In the work I do, historical elements tend to merge with contemporary forms, such as photo printing on furniture or bold sari prints, to…

— Gauri Khan

We communicate through art with symbols that transcend the boundaries of time and culture.

— Richard Clar