Eric Gill
Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gillwas an English sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth22 February 1882
philosophy men knows
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
character writing men
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.
dog design today
Continued experiment with dog today.
practice effort would-be
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.
practice legibility amount
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
art exercise men
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.
men bread doe
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.
art people peculiar
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.
design looks care
If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
looks goodness ifs
If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
letters
Letters are things, not pictures of things.
girl moon apples
The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.
design letters fool
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
artist different kind
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.