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
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I don't know if it's exactly necessary to have someone. I'm not sure.
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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 -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.
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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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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
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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.
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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
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Continued experiment with dog today.
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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We still are struggling with dates and trying to nail them down.
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We want to bargain with Hilton separately because it's the worst of the bunch. And we are concerned that Hilton is going to gather allies and do a lockout pact and assault us like they did in San Francisco.
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We need to make sure our members understand and support our position, and it always goes slower than you hope.