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Art Quote by Herbert Read

“The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.” quote by Herbert Read — Download Open image

“The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.”

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

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There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to…

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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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

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The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the…

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Man is everywhere still in chains.

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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever…

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

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Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of…

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

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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…

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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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…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“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…

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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

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