"The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist."

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Herbert Read

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“With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.”
“No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.”
“The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man”
“The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.”

Source : 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 6, canto 3, st. 1
“Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.”
“Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow.”
“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”

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