There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the cons… - Eric Gill
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the cons…
- Eric Gill
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 o… - Eric Gill
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 o…
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 s… - 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 s…
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. - Eric Gill
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. - Eric Gill
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. - Eric Gill
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes m… - Eric Gill
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes m…
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- l… - Eric Gill
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- l…
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. - Eric Gill
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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