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

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Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings.

Herbert Read's Popular Quotes

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

- Herbert Read

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

- Herbert Read

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

- Herbert Read

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

- 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 an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

- Herbert Read

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