The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.

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• Herbert Read:

  Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

• Herbert Read:

  The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the h

• Herbert Read:

  That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It

• Herbert Read:

  The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

• Herbert Read:

  It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and t

• Herbert Read:

  The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

• Herbert Read:

  The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

• Herbert Read:

  Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

• Herbert Read:

  There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic sy

• Herbert Read:

  Man is everywhere still in chains.