Famous quotes containing the words sir herbert, sir, herbert and/or read:
“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
“Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.”
—Richard, Sir Hull (b. 1907)
“True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Can you read my mind? Do you know what it is that you do to me?”
—David Newman (b. 1937)