"There are now about as many different varieties……" — Eric Gill
"There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools."
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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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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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The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive…
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