Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it,… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
