Eric Gill Quotes

Continued experiment with dog today.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

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.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.