"Art itself has become an extraordinary thing -……" — Eric Gill
"Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary."
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18 Quotes by Eric Gill
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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