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Herbert Read

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Sir Herbert Edward Read, (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.

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Quotes from Herbert Read

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

—Herbert Read

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

—Herbert Read

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

—Herbert Read

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

—Herbert Read