Calligraphy Quotes - Page 2

• I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

  Paul Rand

  Different, Asceticism, Handwriting

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• I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.

  John Green

  Mean, Sound, Comfort

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.169, Penguin

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• Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

  Aberjhani

  Stars, Eye, Ignorance

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.84, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

  Weihui Zhou

  Alcohol, Chinese, Influence

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• When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Father, Want, Painting

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• Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

  Richard Hamming

  Teacher, Doors, Apples

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• Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Men, Primitive Man, Drawing

  Studio International 171, p. 280, June 1966.

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• Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Darkness Within, Light

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• I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I can’t move while I do it. One smudge, and I might kill the lot of us.” Oh good. “But don’t worry.” Dali waved her arms. “It’s so precise, it usually doesn’t work at all.” Better and better.

  Ilona Andrews

  Moving, Writing, Worry

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• The lake of fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.484, Macmillan

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Sight

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