A Concise History of Modern Painting Quotes

“The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.”
― Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Painting

“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.”
― Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Painting