Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more … - Eric Gill

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

. . . Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Eric Gill

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

Same Author Quotes

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.

Appeals, Apples, Derive, Girl, Moon, Say

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

Art, Different, Kind, Person, Artist

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.

Bridges, Building, Gothic, Iron, Real, Sugar

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

Design, Different, Letters, Fools, Kinds

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Letters, Pictures, Things