You Will Learn Most Things By Looking,

Any System That Sees Aesthetics As Irrelevant, That Separates The Artist From His Product, That Fragments The Work Of The Individual, Or Creates By Committee, Or Makes Mincemeat Of The Creative Process Will, In The Long Run, Diminish Not Only The Product But The Maker As Well.

Artistic Tricks Divert From The Effect That An Artist Endeavors To Produce, And Even Excellent Elements Such As Bullets, Arrows, Brackets, Ornate Initials, Are At Best Superficial Ornamentation Unless Logically Employed.

Pictures, Abstract Symbols, Materials, And Colors Are Among The Ingredients With Which A Designer Or Engineer Works. To Design Is To Discover Relationships And To Make Arrangements And Rearrangements Among These Ingredients.

So That Is The Design Process Or The Creative Process. Start With A Problem, Forget The Problem, The Problem Reveals Itself Or The Solution Reveals Itself And Then You Reevaulate It. This Is What You Are Doing All The Time.

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.