Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read
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 be resolved.

Herbert Read
Herbert Read

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.