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Form Quotes by Herbert Read
- Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to…
- The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a…
- Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
- Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain…
- Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.
- The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest…
- I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
- Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
- Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this…
- The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of…
- Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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