If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must … - Herbert Read

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The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Herbert Read

If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery.

Artist, Desire, Discovery, Persist, Restless

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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