Herbert Read Quotes & Sayings

“The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.”

“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”

“A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.”

“The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.”

“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”

“Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.”

“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.”

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

“Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.”

“What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.”