The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely … - Herbert Read

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Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.

Herbert Read

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Developed, Forms, Independent, Individual, Making, Personality

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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