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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

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Herbert Read

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

Brave, Heresy, History, Peace, Ubuntu, Water
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Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

Artist, Feelings, Stronger, Make, Become, Formless

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

Art, Modern, Produced, Symbols

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.

Equality, Literature, World, Power, Technical

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

Art, Depth, Strange, Full, Mysterious

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Build, Deny, Ethos, Literature
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