34 Quotes by Eric Gill

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

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

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.

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

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.

It is freely admitted that this “testing” is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

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.