Quotes About Chinese Calligraphy

#1. Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

Zhou Weihui

#2. 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.

Vikram Seth

#3. I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

Rupert Grint

#4. What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

George Santayana

#5. I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.

Ray Martin

#6. Courtesy is Love in little things.

Henry Drummond

#7. If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.
[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]

Scott Lynch

#8. Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Ed Wood

#9. 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.

Donnie Yen

#10. Be a simple kind of man.

Ronnie Van Zant

#11. Applying deep insight and rubber stamping are such counter-propositions.

Pearl Zhu

#12. I hate being away even for a day. But I'm happiest when I'm working and have my own things going on, so it ultimately makes me a better mother and wife.

Kristin Cavallari

#13. 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.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#14. True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

Helen Rowland

#15. We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness.

Dan Simmons

#16. God has given you the same brain, so use your own in stead of borrowing ideas from somebody else. Think about and fathom the ideas before following them.

Raj Singh

#17. That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

Syama Prasad Mukherjee