Herbert Read Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

  Herbert Read

  Equality, Literature, World

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

• 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

  War, Aquariums, Discipline

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

• 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.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Social Values, Giving

• Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings.

  Herbert Read

  Memories, Men, Feelings

  "The Cult of Sincerity". Book by Herbert Read, 1968.

• Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

  Herbert Read

  Wise, Art, Fall

  Herbert Read (2002). “To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society”, p.28, Psychology Press

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