Eric Gill Citas

• El artista no es un tipo diferente de persona, sino que cada persona es un tipo diferente de artista.

  Eric Gill

  Art, Different, Kind

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• Letters are things, not pictures of things.

  Eric Gill

  Cartas

  Eric Gill (1968). “Autobiography”, p.120, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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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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  Girl, Moon, Apples

  Eric Gill (1944). “Autobiography”

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• En la actualidad existen tantas variedades de letras como tipos de tontos.

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  Design, Different, Letters

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.43, Laurus

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

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  Practice, Design, Typography

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.14, Laurus

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

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  Art, Skills, Firsts

  Eric Gill (1949). “Art”

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• La cultura es una farsa si es sólo una especie de fachada gótica sobre un edificio de hierro, como el Tower Bridge, o una fachada clásica sobre un armazón de acero, como el edificio del Daily Telegraph en Fleet Street. La cultura, si ha de ser algo real y sagrado, debe ser el producto de lo que realmente hacemos para ganarnos la vida, no algo añadido, como azúcar en una pastilla.

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  Real, Bridges, Iron

  Eric Gill, D. Liam O'Huallachain, John Sharpe (2008). “Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity”, Ihs Press

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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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  Arte, Gente, Peculiar

  Eric Gill (1934). “Art and a Changing Civilisation”

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• Si buscas la bondad y la verdad, la belleza se cuidará sola.

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  Design, Looks, Care

  Eric Gill (1947). “Letters”

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

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  Looks, Goodness, Ifs

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• 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.

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  Practice, Effort, Would Be

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• Continued experiment with dog today.

  Eric Gill

  Dog, Design, Today

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• El valor de la facultad creadora se deriva del hecho de que la facultad es la marca principal del hombre. Privar al hombre de su ejercicio es reducirlo a la infrahumanidad.

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  Art, Exercise, Men

  Eric Gill (1937). “Work & property &c”

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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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  Escritura, Carácter, Hombres

  Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton (1993). “An Essay on Typography”, p.121, David R. Godine Publisher

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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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  Mundo

  Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton (1993). “An Essay on Typography”, p.116, David R. Godine Publisher

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

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  Men, Planes, Humans

  Eric Gill (1968). “Autobiography”, p.298, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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

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  Philosophy, Men, Knows

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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.

  Eric Gill

  Men, Doe, Slavery

  Art-nonsense and Other Essays (1929) "Slavery and Freedom"

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• La ciencia es analítica, descriptiva, informativa. No sólo de pan vive el hombre, sino que con la ciencia lo intenta. De ahí la mortandad de todo lo que es puramente científico.

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  Science, Men, Doe

  Eric Gill (1944). “It All Goes Together: Selected Essays”

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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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  Design, Typography, Testing

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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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  War, Catholic, Religion

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