A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
From Herbert Read
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
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.
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.
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
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