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“In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.”

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Herbert Read was a British poet, critic, and philosopher, known for his contributions to aesthetics and advocacy for the arts. His work often delved into themes of social justice and the role of the artist in society. more

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.”

Has Beens Art Modern Strange Depth Fishes Mysterious Exploring Modern Art

Author:Herbert Read

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

States Facts Purpose Artist Scientist Fundamentals

Author:Herbert Read

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.”

School Boys Wonderful College Journalist Minors Wonderful Things Public School Scholarship School Days

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.”

Enough Form Space Vision Unconscious Spontaneity Coordination

Author:Herbert Read

“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.”

“If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.”

Ifs Art Modern Expected Symbols Unfamiliar Modern Art

Author:Herbert Read

“The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.”

Enough Importance Warm Stressed Cool Down

Author:Jamie Redknapp

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