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Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA (/ˈɡɪl/; 22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, typeface designer, 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 generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art and sexual abuse of his daughters.

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If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Care, Design, Look, Looks, Truth

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

Art, Skills, Firsts, Skill, Word

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.

Catholic, Catholics, Endeavor, Peace, Religion, War

Legibility, 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.

Done, Effort, Legibility, Practice, Requires, Would Be

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Good, Happiness, Things, Ultimately, World

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

Beauty, Goodness, Ifs, Look, Looks

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Art, Different, Kind, Person, Artist

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Practice, Design, Typography, Amounts, Simply

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

Design, Different, Letters, Fools, Kinds

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.

Activity, Art, Becomes, Peculiar, People

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.

Analytical, Attempts, Doe, Men, Science, Scientific

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Human, Humans, Man, Men, Plane, Planes

Continued experiment with dog today.

Dog, Design, Today, Continued, Experiment