Herbert Read Quotes About Modern Art
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In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
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The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.
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If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
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The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.
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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.
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