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Herbert Read

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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


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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.


— Herbert Read


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I know of no better name than Anarchism.


— Herbert Read


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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.


— Herbert Read


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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.


— Herbert Read


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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.


— Herbert Read


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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


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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.


— Herbert Read


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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.


— Herbert Read


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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.


— Herbert Read


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About Herbert Read






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This work both changed fundamentally his own life’s work throughout his remaining twenty-five years and provided art education with a rationale of unprecedented lucidity and persuasiveness. Read perhaps was the closest England came to an existentialist theorist of the European tradition. ) Herbert Read Reassessed (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1998)
King James The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1990)
Paraskos Michael (ed.

Sir Herbert Edward Read DSO MC (1893–1968) was an English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art.

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