Quotes by Herbert Read

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.