Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — 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 greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however,… — 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… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. — 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
