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70+ Cute, Modern And Inspirational Calligraphy Quotes

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:05:15 +0000

Many quotes look beautiful in calligraphy. These quotes are often pretty sentiments about love and life, written in gorgeous handwriting as a way of inspiring the reader.

Calligraphy is an ancient art that goes back to the Chinese. With many styles of handwriting, calligraphy has been brought into the twenty-first century. Taking the time to write a message by hand is something that has almost been lost in today’s fast-paced world.

These quotes will inspire you and lead you toward a calmer, more peaceful sense of self and a beautiful outlook on the world.

Calligraphy is a kind of music not for the ears, but for the eyes.

V. Lazursky

Calligraphy is the most intimate, private and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice it is unique with every person

Hermann Zapf

The calligraphy is found in those aspects of form that reveal the hand’s freedom, the gesture, the dance, the tool’s scraping and flowing, the intersection of mind and nature that occurs when hand and heart move as one. In short, the instantaneous character of the living mark is the calligraphy.

Steven Skaggs

The written is to be read and not to be misread.

Sultan-Ali Mashkhedi

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

Lettering creates readable art that comes to life, displaying a quirky, whimsical nature.

Peggy Dean

Write one letter and wait for ages

Prof. R. K. Joshi

You will never see good letters coming from your hand until you have learned to see good letters in your head. Good work depends on clear mental images. Clear images are based on knowledge of the causes of the thing imagined. Knowledge comes from intelligent practice. When practice has given the artist a clear image of what he has to do, he has insight into his art.

Lawrence R. Brady

Letters act as practical and useful signs, but also as pure and inner melody.

Wassily Kandinsky

Kaz’s art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

Joan Halifax

For the largest part ill handwriting in the world is caused by hurry.

Lewis Carroll

A flourish is to be neat and glamorous and, at the same time, to be filled with motion, life energy, thought, and wit of the master.

H. Korger

Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

Dai Sijie

Calligraphy is the ultimate synthesis of what I love: language, art and human connection.

Joy Deneen

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

… the problem before us is fairly simple–To make good letters and to arrange them well.

Edward Johnston

More powerful than all poetry, more pervasive than all science, more profound than all philosophy are the letters of the alphabet, twenty-six pillars of strength upon which our culture rests.

Anonymous

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

Kaoru Akagawa

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

Pablo Picasso

On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

Bad calligraphy comes from not understanding tool and form well enough to be free and clear in gesture. Bad calligraphy is making forms that are unsure, insecure, self-conscious, whereas good calligraphy unites the freedom of the hand with the mastery of tool and self in performance, whether letterforms be present or absent.

Steven Skaggs

In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.

Vikram Seth

Calligraphy is the most direct form of all artistic expression. Just as each movement of the dancer is absolute, so every gesture of the calligrapher is essential. It is not the meaning of the character but the writing–the movement of execution and the action itself–that is important.

Tseng Yu-ho Ecke

The beauty of a letter depends on the harmonious adaptation of each of its parts to every other in a well-proportioned manner so that a whole shall satisfy our aesthetic sense. A result gained only by blending together the fine strokes, stems, and swells in their proper relations.

Frederick Goudy

Geometry can produce legible letters, but art alone makes them beautiful.

Paul Standard

The furthering of calligraphy in our own time above all serves self-realization by developing man’s creative talents. Calligraphy frees emotions and abilities which are hidden in the depths of personality. It activates the power of the soul.

Karlgeorg Hoefer

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

John Olsen, Australian Artist

The written letter is something personal, organic, unique and spontaneous. It mirrors the character and the personality of the writer, and often his mood of the moment.

Emil Ruder

Artistic Writing is so attractive and pleasing to the eye that it is never likely to lose its popularity. The skill displayed in its execution creates wonder and holds most people by its fascination.

F.W. Tamblyn

The letter beautiful is an ideal we are engaged in, and it is oftentimes our subject. As we will never be free of this, we must embrace it.

John Stevens

The making of letters in every form is for me the purest and the greatest pleasure, and at many stages of my life it was to me what a song is to the singer, a picture to the painter, a shout to the elated, ore a sign to the oppressed. It was and is for me the most happy and perfect expression of my life.

Rudolf Koch

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.

H.E. Davey

The scribe strives for spontaneity, sometimes he sweats blood to make it look easy, for spontaneity is the life blood of calligraphy.

Ray Da Boll

A written letter is like a bowl filled with a certain content. The purer the content, the more delicate strings of the human soul it touches

L. Pronenko

Lettering is my music.

Peter Thornton

Marks come alive when they are made with a sense of confidence, engagement, an unselfconscious tap into the flow that is somehow beyond yet also within the calligrapher.

Steven Skaggs

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

Shunryu Suzuki

Each letter in every script known to man holds an eternal power, an individual beauty in its vertical, horizontal, angular lines, in their continuity

Achyut Palav

Be faithful to precision, neat handwriting, and authorship.

Edward Johnston

For me, calligraphy is the physical revelation of the structure of the ideas; a reflection of the shape, texture and color of the phrases; and the integration of the words’ texture and color with their meanings.

Beth Lee

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy – the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand – and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

Robert Bringhurst

I look at lettering as a huge palette which includes calligraphy, type forms, and everything in between. The colours of that palette can be mixed into an infinite variety of blends.

Julian Waters

Every bottle of ink contains at least one good letter … and it’s at the bottom.

Peter Thornton

A good flourish is the mood and soul of an artist creating capricious and delicate beauty with a pen′ s nib

Yu. Greschuk

There are five virtues: accuracy, literacy, a strong hand, industriousness, and the perfect writing utensils.

Mir-Ali Khoravi

Perfection of handwriting needs proper education, regular exercises, and purity of the soul.

Yakut Mustasimi

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

H.G. Wells

The advantage of drawing letters is that we can incorporate nuance. Nuance, rather than slavish precision, is what breathes life into our letters.

Peter Thornton

Calligraphy is like crawling into a funnel from the wrong end: the farther you go, the more there is to learn and do. It is a never-ending source of pleasure.

Sheila Waters

Calligraphy is the most intimate, private, and spontaneous expressive means. Like a fingerprint or voice it is unique with every person.

German Zapf

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t’ai chi chuan.

Cheng Man-ch’ing

Despite the hard work and frustration, the striving for excellence is part of the fun of lettering.

Marsha Brady

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

As you work with different teachers, you may note that the truly inspirational and great ones are not dogmatic about letterform, technique or methodology.

Tina Vickers

Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles.

Shawn Martin

Regardless of how diligently a person practices penning the strokes and letters, their efforts will never lead to consistently superb results unless they can see the correct forms in their mind before their pen touches the paper. “The hand cannot conceive what the mind cannot perceive.”

Michael R. Sull

The man who works with his hands is a laborer. The man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman. The man who works with his hands, his brain, and his heart is an artist.

Louis Nizer

70+ Aesthetic Quotes About Love and Everything Else

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:06:52 +0000

Relationships can be difficult to navigate. They can be funny and heartbreaking, sometimes at the same time. The art of maintaining a relationship requires skill, patience, caring, and forgiveness.

It isn’t always easy to find the right person for you. We learn as much from our failures as we do from our successes.

Aesthetic quotes go hand in hand with colors and graphics. Purple is a popular shade for these quotes. Some of these quotes come from grunge music, the classic 1990s genre.

Whether you are looking for quotes about the difficulties of relationships or about their joys, you will find the perfect quote here.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Miuccia Prada

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

E. O. Wilson

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Roberto Burle Marx

The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.

Randall Jarrell

You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.

Travis Scott

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

Fred Ross

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Barnett Newman

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Visual art and writing don’t exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can’t do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

William S. Burroughs

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Sophia Loren

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Walter Benjamin

Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.

John Dewey

Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.

Hiromu Arakawa

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Daniel Bell

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

George Edward Woodberry

I want to teach [people] the secret of great visual presentation. Your stomach sees the food first, and I want to help them match food flavor profiles with the aesthetics of everything.

Wolfgang Puck

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.

Octavio Paz

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

W. H. Auden

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Clarice Lispector

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

Kazimir Malevich

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Karim Rashid

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

Antonin Artaud

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Thorstein Veblen

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

Shepard Fairey

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

Kalle Lasn

God’s pleasure–the beauty creation possesses in his regard–underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.

David Bentley Hart

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

Irving Stone

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature’s performance

Iris van Herpen

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It’s odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

Jerry Garcia

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Ben Shneiderman

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

Dave Eggers

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man — the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Oscar Wilde

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley

It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it.

John Cusack

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Richard Courant

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

Andrei Tarkovsky

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Oscar Wilde

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Ferdinand Porsche

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Jimenez Lai

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Paul Klee

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic… I create a style based on life.

Issey Miyake

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Anthony Daniels

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Friedrich Schiller

“Art” is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. … What we call art is a game.

Octavio Paz

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

Louis de Bernières

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Steve Jobs

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.

Cornel West

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull.

Lord Byron

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry James

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

M.F. Moonzajer

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

Harold Rosenberg

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Brian Sewell

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Luis Barragan

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. … Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe — not empirically, alas, but only theoretically — that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Joseph Brodsky

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Theodor W. Adorno

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to “Hamlet” on the grounds that I knew who won.

Quentin Crisp

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Albert Einstein

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.

Tom Robbins

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn’t change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.

Murray Krieger

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Oscar Wilde

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Remy de Gourmont

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Richard P. Feynman