Ed Benguiat Quotes

#1. Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

Joyce Meyer

#2. Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.

Ed Benguiat

#3. The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

Ed Benguiat

#4. I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

Ed Benguiat

#5. I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.

Ed Benguiat

#6. I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.

John Grisham

#7. The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.

Ed Benguiat

#8. One must possess many gifts ... which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover ... the artist must possess the courageous soul.

Kate Chopin

#9. Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.

Harsha Walia

#10. Believe me, when I say;
There are no two powers
That command the soul.
One is God
The other is the tide.
-Anon
From the novel Abarat

Clive Barker

#11. I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

Rafael Nadal

#12. To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

Ed Benguiat

#13. As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell

#14. Type should be beautiful - Screw readable!

Ed Benguiat