Eric Gill Quotes
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We do not believe that a multiemployer group involving Hilton is in the best interest of Hawaii's tourist industry or our members.
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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.
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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
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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.
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The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
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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.
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We want to bargain with Hilton separately because it's the worst of the bunch. And we are concerned that Hilton is going to gather allies and do a lockout pact and assault us like they did in San Francisco.
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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.
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It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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We still are struggling with dates and trying to nail them down.
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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.
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Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.
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There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
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Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
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We need to make sure our members understand and support our position, and it always goes slower than you hope.
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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.
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
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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.
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I was going, but not now. None of us really want to go out. This is what happens when the city doesn't pay any attention to keeping up with things.
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There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.