artWords | ideas made visual | volume one (abridged)

a sampling from volume one

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ideas made visual by designer & artist max singer artwords © max singer 2014-2022

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graphic design is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy abnormality hobbies and humors —george santayana 1

artWords may be self-evident, cryptic, whimsical or heartfelt; but each of these "ideas made visual" is an inventive graphic re-imagining of a famous quote, from antiquity to the present day; by writers, philosophers, musicians, artists, scientists, poets, satirists, celebrities, & others;* created by awardwinning designer, typographer & illustrator max singer * complete list of authors pgs. 103-104

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wisdom of the east

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if you do not change direction you may end up where you were heading —lao tzu

wisdom of the east he who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes —buddha

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yogi-isms in theory there is no difference between theory and practice in practice there is —yogi berra 7

, artists words

some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot others transform a yellow spot into the sun —pabl● picass● 9

, artists words

i found i could say things with color and shapes that i couldn't say any other way things i had no words for —georgia o’keefe 11

, aesop s “tables”

after all is said and done more is said than done —aesop 13

godly words

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the bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it —george santayana

godly words 18

waxing philosophical

all i was doing was trying to get home from work —ROSA PARKS 20

g n i wax cal i h p o s o l i ph 21

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po-'e-tik 'w rds 23

poetic words

clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky —RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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and ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation —khalil gibran

poetic words

when the lips are silent the heart has a hundred tongues —rumi

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a auth utho r! or! if it was it m s ight o b and if it e were so it w ould be but as it is n it ai ’t n that ’t ’s lo gic —l ewi

s ca rro ll

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–HAROLD PINTER

–ITALO CALVINO

—charles bukowski

author! author!

we have wasted history like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar

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jazz is smooth and cool jazz is rage jazz flows like water jazz never seems to begin or end jazz is a conversation jazz is abandon

lyrical words

—nat wolff

parlez vous?

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parlez vous?

the more one judges the less one loves —honore de balzac

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—mark twain—

mark my words

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witty words

when you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show when you’re born in america you get a front row seat —george carlin

frank l speak y ing 43

o t s d r o w y b e liv

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guide words

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volume one

artWords

ideas made visual by designer & artist max singer artwords © max singer 2014-2022