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

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An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

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.

- Herbert Read

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…

- Herbert Read

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

- Herbert Read

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.

- Herbert Read

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

- Herbert Read

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.

- Herbert Read

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

- Herbert Read