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You can read the poem
But that is not the poem.
Watch the white paper
Between the lines.
Look through that white
As through white snow
To see what buttercups and lilies
Are pushing up from below.
From “How to Read a Poem”
by Lloyd Reynolds. American Master Calligrapher.
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When you look a piece of calligraphy,
the brush starts to move all over again.
Chinese Proverb. Retold by Lloyd Reynolds.
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Calligraphy:
the dance in a tiny stage of the living breathing hand.
-Text: Paragraphed from the Robert Bringhurst's book,
The Elements of Typographic Style.
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A friend of mine once mentioned something one of his teachers
had told him:
"Calligraphy is like the leaves of a tree".
Every letter has the same basic shape and size, but each one is unique.
- Christopher Calderhead. “Calligraphy Studio: the ultimate introduction”. p. 11.
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There is something decidedly counter-cultural about
the practice of calligraphy.
In an era when everything is fast, from instant messages
to fast food,
calligraphy asks us to slow down and take our time.
- Christopher Calderhead. “Calligraphy Studio: the ultimate introduction”. p. 11.
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Beautiful handwriting is of that value
which cannot be bought or sold
but is obtained by practice and application.
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A true of human happiness lies in taking
a genuine interest in all the details
of daily life and elevating the by art.
- William Morris.
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Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet.
-From Latin: "The spoken word perishes, but the written word endures."
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The making of letters in every form is for me
the greatest pleasure.
It was and is for me the most happy and perfect
expression of my life.
-Rudolf Koch (1876 – 1934). German calligrapher.
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Writing does not need to be legible to be entirely writing.
- Roland Barthes
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The "g" is a mere twiddle of the pen at best,
but a delightful twiddle nevertheless.
- Frederic W. Goudy.
(From Kevin Howath, calligrapher)
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It is possible to make a brush stroke
that expresses your whole life.
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
(from Barbara Bash, calligrapher)
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A book calls for pen, ink,
and a writing desk; today
the rule is that pen, ink, and
a writing desk call for a book.
- Nietzsche.
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The written word remains.
The spoken word takes wing
and cannot be recalled.
- Horace
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The hand renders the heart's gesture.
- Sherri Kiesel.
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The pen moves, the letter is made.
Your mind is occupied with the
meaning of the words
and the rhythm of the hand
dancing across the page.
You follow a planned layout,
working your way from left
to right, down the page.
You are writing.
The serif twists, the swash leaps,
the shape you have just made
dictates your next move.
The hand darts around the page
adjusting, adding, and erasing.
The words become
secondary to the forms.
You are drawing.
- Annie Cicale. "The Art & craft of Hand Lettering". p. 98.
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Calligraphy;
disciplined freedom
is the essence of it,
as of any other just form of
government.
- Raymond F. Daboll (1892 -1982).
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A calligrapher named Sally Wright,
After flourishing night after night,
Concluded, guess what:
Like a true Celtic knot,
That there really was no end in sight.
- Guillermo Ildebrando.
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The Art and Craft of Lettering
The letterer pushes the
puddles of ink,
now very wet,
now very dry,
in the best way he can.
He lets the world
call it calligraphy or lettering,
loose or tight,
written or built-up,
creative or slavish, as it pleases.
He is only concerned
with making beautiful forms
and
arranging them well.
- Arnold Bank (1908 - 1986). Master Calligrapher.
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