"The value of the creative faculty derives from……" — 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 is to reduce him to subhumanity."
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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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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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