The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. - Herbert Read - Quotesmemo.com

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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!

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Herbert Read

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

Happiness, Literature, May, Happy, Slave

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Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

Artist, Feelings, Stronger, Make, Become, Formless

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

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To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Equality, Literature, World, Power, Technical

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

Art, Depth, Strange, Full, Mysterious

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Build, Deny, Ethos, Literature

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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!

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