Herbert Read Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Men, Giving

• It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

  Herbert Read

  Mean, Men, Play

• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Herbert Read

  Military, Artist, Civilization

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

• 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

  Mean, Independent, Civilization

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Hands, Worry

  Herbert Read (2015). “The Politics of the Unpolitical”, p.145, Routledge

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