Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
Eric GillThe artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric GillThe 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 GillThere are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Eric GillLegibility, 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.
Eric Gill