Art Quote by Herbert Read Download Open image “The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.” — Herbert Read ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Modern Said Symbols Works of art
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men… — Giuseppe Mazzini 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
Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
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
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share
One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in… — Maurizio Cattelan 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 to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share
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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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
