Eric Gill Quotes

#1. 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.

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

#4. Have you ever been married?"
"Nope. I was close once."
"You were engaged?"
"No, but I came close to thinking about it.
She didn't believe close to thinking about it counted. "What happened?"
"I got a good look at her mother and ran like hell.

Rachel Gibson

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

Eric Gill

#6. 'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.

Cybill Shepherd

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

Eric Gill

#8. 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.

Eric Gill

#9. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

Max Ehrmann

#10. 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.

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

#12. Live to fight on other days.

Janet Morris

#13. I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

Bob Diamond

#14. I wish we had somebody here who never would be missed. Regrettably we are all friends.

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. They are able who think they are able.

Virgil

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

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

#18. 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.

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

#20. A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Tom Colicchio

#21. I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner ... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul ... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.

Brad Paisley

#22. 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.

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

#24. Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.

Wayne Dyer

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

Eric Gill

#26. 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.

Eric Gill

#27. 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.

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

#29. Continued experiment with dog today.

Eric Gill

#30. 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.

Eric Gill