Home / Quotes / Quote by Jan Tschichold

Quote by Jan Tschichold

“Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.”

Quote by Jan Tschichold

Author

Jan Tschichold was a Swiss writer, publisher, and design theorist of German birth. His career spanned various fields including book design, graphic design, and typography. Tschichold is renowned for his contributions to modern design, particularly in the mid-20th century, where his reforms in book design had a profound impact on the design community. more

You May Also Like

“I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.”

Information Design Organization Consistent Graphic Graphic Design

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.”

Ifs Inspirational Made Motivational Used Reading Easy Common Impossible Design Conscious Disappear Popularity Cognition Graphic Design Typography Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Typefaces

Author:Zuzana Licko

“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”

Design Letters Metaphor Dinner Jeans Jackets Graphic Design Typefaces Helvetica

Author:Adrian Frutiger

“If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.”

Ifs Use Information Design Architect Intuitive Helvetica

Author:David Carson

“Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.”

Inspirational May Motivational Design Designer Graphic Design Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Graphic Art

Author:Paola Antonelli

“Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.”

Design Stealing Sheep

Author:Frederic Goudy

“There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.”

Kind Different Design Fool Letters Variety Different Kinds Typography Graphic Artist Graphic Designer

Book:An Essay on Typography

Source: An Essay on Typography

“Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.”

Age Form Understanding Design Materials Skills Elements Tools Importance Confused Digital Mastery Graphic Design Digital Age Graphic Artist Graphic Art Digital Tools

Author:John Maeda

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

People Work Creativity Creative Modern Innovation Access Iron Steel Workplace Coal Creative People Modern Business Iron Ore

Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

Ifs Thinking Made Ideas Whole Light Action Creativity One Thing Mines Innovation Property Instruction Workplace Exclusive Patents Susceptible Intellectual Property Darkening

Author:Thomas Jefferson