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> [That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/that-state-is-a-state-of-slavery-in-which-a-man-does-what-he-likes-to/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

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## More by Eric Gill

> [Continued experiment with dog today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/continued-experiment-with-dog-today/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/without-philosophy-man-cannot-know-what-he-makes-without-religion-he/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/ultimately-there-is-no-happiness-in-a-world-in-which-things-are-not/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/the-value-of-the-creative-faculty-derives-from-the-fact-that-faculty/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/man-cannot-live-on-the-human-plane-he-must-be-either-above-or-below-it/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/art-itself-has-become-an-extraordinary-thing-the-activity-of-peculiar/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/culture-is-a-sham-if-it-is-only-a-sort-of-gothic-front-put-on-an-iron/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/there-are-now-about-as-many-different-varieties-of-letters-as-there/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/writing-is-in-fact-an-entirely-outworn-decayed-and-corrupt-convention/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/if-you-look-after-truth-and-goodness-beauty-looks-after-herself/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [“Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/look-after-goodness-and-truth-beauty-will-look-after-herself/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/legibility-in-practice-amounts-simply-to-what-one-is-accustomed-to/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/the-artist-is-not-a-different-kind-of-person-but-every-person-is-a/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/science-is-analytical-descriptive-informative-man-does-not-live-by/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

> [Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-gill/art-is-skill-that-is-the-first-meaning-of-the-word/)

[Eric Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-gill/)

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