5 Quotes & Sayings By Eric Gill

Eric Gill was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, on 3rd September 1882. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and the Royal College of Art, London where he won several prizes. He worked as an illustrator for Punch magazine, before becoming an artist for the Architectural Review. In 1911 he started his own publishing house with the publication of The Interpreters Read more

This was followed by The Interpreters 2 (1914), The Interpreters 3 (1919), Ionic (1922) and The Book of Ionic Ornament (1923). He also produced illustrations for books on religion, philosophy, science and art.

1
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself. Eric Gill
2
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. Eric Gill
3
The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work. Eric Gill
4
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes without religion he cannot know why. Eric Gill