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The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
— George Herbert
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
— Herbert Read
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
— Herbert Read
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.
— Herbert Read
Man is everywhere still in chains.
— Herbert Read
It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.
— Herbert Harold Read
I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.
— Herbert Harold Read
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
— Herbert Read
Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.
— Herbert Read
The dice cannot read their own spots.
— Frank Herbert
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
— Herbert Read
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
— Herbert Bayard Swope
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
— Herbert Read
... one doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.
— Frank Herbert
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ...
— Herbert Read
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
— Herbert Read
Love works miracles in stillness.
— Herbert Read
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
— Herbert Bayer
I know of no better name than Anarchism.
— Herbert Read
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
— Herbert Read
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
— Herbert Read
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
— Herbert Read
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.
— Herbert Read
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
— Herbert Read
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.
— Herbert Read
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
— David Herbert Donald
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
— Herbert Read
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
— Herbert Read
In general, modern art ... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
— 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.
— Herbert Read
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
— Herbert Read
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
— Peter Singer
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
— Herbert Read
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.
— Herbert Read
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
— Herbert Read
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.
— Herbert Simon
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
— Herbert Read
