Quotes from Eric Gill

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

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

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

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes to do only when he is not at work.

The soul of the ordinary man and woman is full of good will; but good sense, logical intelligence, is too rare.

We have elected to order manufacture upon inhuman lines; why should we ask for humanity in the product?

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

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair & the word fair can be taken in both senses — it means both beautiful and just.

That if you look after goodness and truth beauty will take care of itself, is true in both worlds. The beauty that industrialism properly produces is the beauty of bones; the beauty that radiates from the work of men is the beauty of holiness. 4.

Druk, odbicie, to w istocie wg??bienie uzyskane za pomoc? nacisku; dzieje drukarstwa, to historia zanikania tych wg??bie?.

W obu Å›wiatach prawdÄ… jest, ?e jeÅ›li szukasz dobra i prawdy, piÄ™kno znajdzie siÄ™ samo. PiÄ™kno, które potrafi wytworzy? industrializm, to piÄ™kno szkieletu; piÄ™kno, które promieniuje z ludzkiej pracy, jest piÄ™knem Å›wiÄ™toÅ›ci.

Six years is a considerable time in human life, and if it be true that the witty remarks one makes at a dinner party seem peculiarly foolish the next morning, how much more does the enthusiasm of 1930 appear foolish in 1936.

W obu ?wiatach prawd? jest, ?e je?li szukasz dobra i prawdy, pi?kno znajdzie si? samo.

The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.

The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.

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 that is purely scientific.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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