Sir Herbert Read

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    “This is the essential distinction—even opposition—between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, the film objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer—in actual practice it is rated very low—we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”
    —Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)

    “Secrecy is the badge of fraud.”
    —John, Sir Chadwick (b. 1941)

    “The harbingers are come. See, see their mark:
    White is their color, and behold my head.
    But must they have my brain? Must they dispark
    Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred?
    Must dullness turn me to a clod?
    Yet have they left me, Thou art still my God.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)