"In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form ofÂ languageÂ linking timelessness and time."

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Source : "The Elements of Typographic Style". Book by Robert Bringhurst, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

Robert Bringhurst

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“It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.”
“A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.”

Source : Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.67, University of Georgia Press
“Clear statement is argument.”
“I have a house in Saratoga Springs.”
“I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.”
“The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.”
“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”

Source : Letter to Vladimir Stassov on October 18, 1872. "Moussorgsky". Book by Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England, p. 107, 1929.
“Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.”

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