All art forms emphasize and express beauty in their own way. What’s different about calligraphy is that it has rules — it’s a skill that one has to know. One can express this in a modern contemporary style, but one cannot break the traditional rules required in the formation of letters.

In the art of calligraphy, the measure of the letters is also very important. A calligraphy artist works for years to write according to these measures. So, you cannot enlarge or shrink the letters as you wish, you cannot shorten them or elongate them as you feel. There are countless rules. But these rules further enhance the taste of this art. 

This is the way I see it, in art, in order to leave a mark in history you need to do something new, you can’t just copy what’s been done a hundred years ago. If you master the rules you can break them later. The way you will break them is with confidence, with the right way of breaking the rules.