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

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

- 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

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

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

- 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