Quotes by : Herbert Read

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth....

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

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military....

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the....

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

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour....

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of....

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic....

You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of the....