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Herbert Read Quote: “If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.”

51. “If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.”

53. “These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

54. “But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.”

55. “It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.”

56. “The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.”

57. “The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”

58. “There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”

— Herbert Read

Herbert Read Quote: “The true artist is indifferent to the materials and conditions imposed upon him. He accepts any conditions, so long as they can be used to express his will-to-form. Then in the wider mutations of history his efforts are magnified or diminished, taken up or dismissed, by forces which he cannot predict, and which have very little to do with the values of which he is the exponent. It is his faith that those values are nevertheless the eternal attributes of humanity.”

59. “The true artist is indifferent to the materials and conditions imposed upon him. He accepts any conditions, so long as they can be used to express his will-to-form. Then in the wider mutations of history his efforts are magnified or diminished, taken up or dismissed, by forces which he cannot predict, and which have very little to do with the values of which he is the exponent. It is his faith that those values are nevertheless the eternal attributes of humanity.”

— Herbert Read

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