"I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible."

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Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

Erik Spiekermann

#Typography Quotes #Obvious Quotes #Persons Quotes

“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“It's good to be alive.”
“I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.”
“I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous”
“Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.”
“The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing”
“If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.”
“I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.”

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