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“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”
― Eric Gill

“Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.”
― Eric Gill

“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

“The soul of the ordinary man and woman is full of good will; but good sense, logical intelligence, is too rare.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“We have elected to order manufacture upon inhuman lines; why should we ask for humanity in the product?”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“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.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“W obu światach prawdą jest, że jeśli szukasz dobra i prawdy, piękno znajdzie się samo. Piękno, które potrafi wytworzyć industrializm, to piękno szkieletu; piękno, które promieniuje z ludzkiej pracy, jest pięknem świętości.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“W obu światach prawdą jest, że jeśli szukasz dobra i prawdy, piękno znajdzie się samo.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“The only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.”
― Eric Gill

“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.”
― Eric Gill

“Druk, odbicie, to w istocie wgłębienie uzyskane za pomocą nacisku; dzieje drukarstwa, to historia zanikania tych wgłębień.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

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― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“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.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“¶ Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography

“¶ 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.”
― Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography