Herbert Read

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

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.

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.