Eric Gill Quotes

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

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

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

People are more easily induced to do, and do more easily, what they are already used to; but people also learn to do things new to them.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

To this nation and to every nation there come formative periods in its life and history. New conditions can be met only by new methods. Meeting these conditions hopefully, and facing them bravely and wisely, is to be the mightiest test of American virtue and capacity. Without abandoning past limitations, traditions, and principles, by meeting present opportunities and obligations, we shall show ourselves worthy of the great trusts which civilization has imposed upon us.

If we want Saudi Arabia to progress, we have no choice but to embrace change.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.