Alphabet Quote by Virginia Postrel

The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for…

— Armin Hofmann

This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond…

— Ji Lee

Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is…

— Stanley Morison

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is…

— Frederic Goudy

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Baby if I had to re-make the alphabet I would put

— Ricky Matt

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average…

— Don DeLillo

“In middle school I used to draw letters of the alphabet out of contorted torsos, bodies, arms, legs. A rigid torso with one arm…

— Jarod Kintz

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The…

— Evelyn Waugh

“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet is the…

— James Gleick

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet.…

— Andre Kertesz