Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image