Friday, 30 September 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Quotations for Posters
I have trawled the internet for possible quotations to use on my posters. I will also be going through some of the books i have read for my dissertation, but these are what I have so far. I have broken them down into categories, they vary from very typographic quotes to random life quotes and quotes about the use of words. i wanted to find things that had a general type and word related theme.
Type Quotes:
Geometry can produce legible letter but art alone makes them beautiful. Art begins where geometry ends, and imparts to letters a character transcending mere measurement.
-Paul Standard
Typography is two dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability
- Herman Zapt
Type appears at first to be a rigid medium; but like other rigid media, it is plastic to the living spirit
- J H Mason
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight to typographic civilisation
- E Lupton
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique
- Wolfgang Weingart
Designers are meant to be loved not to be understood
- Fabien Barral
Don't be to harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
- Dylan Thomas
A letter does not blush
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
CREATIVE SAYINGS:
Art is the triumph over chaos
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home
- Twyla Tharp
WORD SAYINGS:
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind
-Rudard Kipling
A man may break a word with you sir; and words are but wind: ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
- William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never heaven go
- William Shakespeare
The educated southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
OTHER:
Less is only more where more is no good
- Frank Lloyd Webber
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
- Leonardo Da Vinci
I don't know what the key to success is but the key to failure is trying to please everyone
Perfection is achieved, not when this is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Fail. Fail Again. Fail Better.
Fault is multiple, it is life, it reflects the personality of the artist and his character; it is human, it is everything, it will redeem the work
- James Ensor
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
- Dylan Thomas
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood
- Da vinci
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset ones own vanity.
- Dylan Thomas
Once can have no smaller or greater mastery of oneself
-Da vinci
God sells us all things at the price of labour
- Da vinci
Type Quotes:
Geometry can produce legible letter but art alone makes them beautiful. Art begins where geometry ends, and imparts to letters a character transcending mere measurement.
-Paul Standard
Typography is two dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability
- Herman Zapt
Type appears at first to be a rigid medium; but like other rigid media, it is plastic to the living spirit
- J H Mason
Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight to typographic civilisation
- E Lupton
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique
- Wolfgang Weingart
Designers are meant to be loved not to be understood
- Fabien Barral
Don't be to harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
- Dylan Thomas
A letter does not blush
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
CREATIVE SAYINGS:
Art is the triumph over chaos
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home
- Twyla Tharp
WORD SAYINGS:
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind
-Rudard Kipling
A man may break a word with you sir; and words are but wind: ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
- William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never heaven go
- William Shakespeare
The educated southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
OTHER:
Less is only more where more is no good
- Frank Lloyd Webber
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
- Leonardo Da Vinci
I don't know what the key to success is but the key to failure is trying to please everyone
Perfection is achieved, not when this is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away
- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Fail. Fail Again. Fail Better.
Fault is multiple, it is life, it reflects the personality of the artist and his character; it is human, it is everything, it will redeem the work
- James Ensor
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
- Dylan Thomas
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood
- Da vinci
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset ones own vanity.
- Dylan Thomas
Once can have no smaller or greater mastery of oneself
-Da vinci
Form follows Function
God sells us all things at the price of labour
- Da vinci
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