Quotes by Edward Johnston

"A man who don't know history, he don't know anything."
— Edward Johnston
"Of all the Arts, writing, perhaps, shows most clearly the formative force of the instruments used."
— Edward Johnston
"This then is the scribe’s direct purpose: the making of useful things legibly beautiful."
— Edward Johnston
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Edward Johnston, CBE (San José de Mayo, Uruguay 11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944) was a Uruguayan-born British craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the father of modern calligraphy, in t...