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  • Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

  • But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

    Fire   Lakes   Sight  
  • I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.

    Mean   Sound   Comfort  
    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.169, Penguin
  • That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

    Mean   Tree   Branches  
  • If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

    Islamic   Age   Mastery  
  • The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

  • I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.

    Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
  • When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

  • Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

    Stars   Eye   Ignorance  
    Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.84, Bright Skylark Book Products
  • We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience when they read it they'll understand. So there were definitely little things we were able to do that specifically leveraged the artists' talents.

    Mean   Artist   Chinese  
    "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation". Interview with Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.
  • Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

    Isabel Allende (1985). “The House of the Spirits”, Everymans Library
  • I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

    Book   Hard Work   Son  
  • The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

  • Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

    Studio International 171, p. 280, June 1966.
  • Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

  • A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

    Art   Chinese   World  
    Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2004.
  • I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.

  • Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

    Eye   Artist   Chinese  
  • The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was why we used a historical calligraphy scroll come to life.

    "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.
  • The lake of fire awaits my lady

    Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.484, Macmillan
  • Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

    "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.
  • Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it.

    Moon   Sky   Calligraphy  
    Yosa Buson, “Calligraphy Of Geese”
  • Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

    Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.17, Random House
  • Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

    Fashion   Art   Mean  
  • I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or trialogue, or polylogue: many, many, many voices, going back a long way. The cultural picture is much more mutually enriching at many different levels, manufacturers...absolutely, design and calligraphy. It's an amazing amount of cross-interests between people.

    Struggle   Voice   Long  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

    A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt
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