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 GillThe shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the Oโs roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girlโs breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.
Eric Gill