Eric Gill Quotes
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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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…
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The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
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There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all…
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to…
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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
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Continued experiment with dog today.
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Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness…
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It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
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The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is…
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If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a…
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an…
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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes…
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