Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.

Herbert Read's Popular Quotes

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

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In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchi…

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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

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The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

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Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

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The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

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

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This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. Ho…

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