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Herbert Read has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does…
• Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.
• The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could…
• Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
• The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.
• The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything…
• The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more…
• It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

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