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Quotes from The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays — Herbert Read

1893–1968 England

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The revolutionary artist is born into a world of clichés, of stale images and signs which no longer pierce the consciousness to express reality. He therefore invents new symbols, perhaps a whole new symbolic system.

The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays (1971)

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