Eric Gill Quotes (12 Quotes)


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

    I was going, but not now. None of us really want to go out. This is what happens when the city doesn't pay any attention to keeping up with things.

    We want to bargain with Hilton separately because it's the worst of the bunch. And we are concerned that Hilton is going to gather allies and do a lockout pact and assault us like they did in San Francisco.

    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.

    Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavour to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.


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

    We do not believe that a multiemployer group involving Hilton is in the best interest of Hawaii's tourist industry or our members.

    We need to make sure our members understand and support our position, and it always goes slower than you hope.

    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.


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

    There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.


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