Eric Gill

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Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.


— Eric Gill


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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.


— Eric Gill


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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.


— Eric Gill


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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.


— Eric Gill


#know #makes #man #philosophy #religion






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Arthur Eric Rowton Gill /ˈɡɪl/ (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor typeface designer stonecutter and printmaker who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art.