Herbert Read Quotes About Modern Art

Quotes about: Modern Art

• Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Men, Giving

• In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Desire, Inspired

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

  Herbert Read

  Art, Depth, Strange

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

  Herbert Read

  Art, Modern, Symbols

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

  Herbert Read

  Artist, Destiny, Modern

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