Quotes by Eric Gill

About Eric Gill:

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill 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 as well as his sexual abuse of children and of an animal.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

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

Eric Gill

Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

Eric Gill

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

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

Eric Gill

Author Bio

  • NameEric Gill
  • DescriptionBritish artist
  • AliasesArthur Eric Rowton Gill
  • BornFebruary 22, 1882
  • DiedNovember 17, 1940
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionType Designer; Sculptor; Graphic Designer; Illustrator