Calligraphic Art Quotes

“The writing, in huge insular majuscule script, is flawless in its regularity and utter control. One can only marvel at the penmanship. It is calligraphic and as exact as printing, and yet it flows and shapes itself into the space available. It sometimes swells and seems to take breath at the ends of lines. The decoration is more extensive and more overwhelming than one could possibly imagine. Virtually every line is embellished with color or ornament.”
― Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

“On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.”
― Patricia Robin Woodruff