You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent … - Herbert Read

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My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Herbert Read

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Desire, Independent, Man, Men, Thinking, True

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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.

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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.

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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Helen Keller

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle. ' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

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Marcel Proust

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

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Thomas S. Power

We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class

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Huey Newton

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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