Art Quote by Herbert Read Download Open image “Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.” — Herbert Read ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Contemplation Meditation Objects Persist Works of art
“Art requires contemplation that focuses attention on the viewer developing a relationship with the work of art, not merely passively receiving a message.” — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being. — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
“Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings… — George Heard Hamilton Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter... — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times. — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
