Beatrice Warde famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
-- Beatrice Warde

#Talking #Ideas #Voice
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.
-- Beatrice Warde

#Clothes #Ideas #People
Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.
-- Beatrice Warde

#People #Design #Personality
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.
-- Beatrice Warde

#Art #Humility #Self
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
-- Beatrice Warde

#Art #Firsts #Typography
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.
-- Beatrice Warde

#Wise #Simple #Men

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Beatrice Warde famous quotes

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