In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — 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
