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Modern Quotes by Herbert Read
- The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.
- Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to…
- It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be…
- The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
- In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
- The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish...
- If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
- I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis…
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