Art Quote by Herbert Read

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

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

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

— Herbert Read

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

— Herbert Read

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

Man is everywhere still in chains.

— Herbert Read

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

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

— Herbert Read

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

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

— 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…

— Herbert Read

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