Art Quote by Herbert Read Download Open image “If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.” — Herbert Read ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Expected Ifs Modern Modern art Symbols Unfamiliar
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it. — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
“As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words!… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek.… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness… — Graham Cray 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
